Sacred Beetle and Other Great Essays in Science Martin Gardner (Editor)
Acknowledgments
Preface
Francis Bacon: The sphinx
Charles Darwin: Recapitulation and conclusion
John Dewey: The influence of Darwinism on philosophy
Stephen Jay Gould: Nonmoral nature
William James: The problem of being
Havelock Ellis: What makes a woman Beautiful?
Jean Henri Fabre: The sacred beetle
Gilbert Keith Chesterton: The logic of elfland
Carl Sagan: Can we know the universe? reflections on a grain of salt
Joseph Wood Krutch: The colloid & the crystal
Jose Ortega Y Gasset: The barbarism of specialization
Thomas Henry Huxley: Science & culture
John Burroughs: Science & literature
Isaac Asimov: Science & beauty
Ernest Nagel: Automation
Johathan Norton Leonard: Other-worldly life
J. Robert Oppenheimer: Physics in the contemporary world
Alfred North Whitehead: Religion & science
John Dos Passos: Proteus
Julian Huxley: An essay on bird-mind
Arthur Stanley Eddington: The decline of determinism
Aldous Huxley: Science in the brave new world
Rachel Carson: The sunless sea
Maurice Maeterlinck: The nuptial flight
H.G. Wells: The new source of energy; Science & ultimate truth
Laura Fermi: Success
Samuel Goudsmit: The gestapo in science
Robert Louis Stevenson: Pan's pipes
Sigmund Freud: Dreams of the death of beloved persons
Bertrand Russell: The science to save us from science; The greatness of Albert Einstein
Albert Einstein: E=mc2
Lewis Thomas: Seven wonders