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preface ix I CONTEMPORARY ISSUES IN SCIENCE 1 The Scientist as Rebel 3 2 Can Science be Ethical? 19 3 The Deep Hot Biosphere 33 4 The Cosmic Connection 39 5 The Future Needs Us 45 6 What a World! 59 7 Einstein in Berlin 73 II WAR AND PEACE 8 Nuclear Disaster 79 9 Generals 85 10 Russians 103 11 Pacifists 115 12 The Race is Over 133 13 The Force of Reason 139 14 The Bitter End 145 III HISTORY OF SCIENCE AND SCIENTISTS 15 Mathematics and Physics 163 16 Edward Teller's Memoirs 173 17 In Praise of Amateurs 179 18 A New Newton 193 19 Clockwork Science 207 20 The World on a String 219 21 Oppenheimer as Scientist, Administrator, and Poet 235 22 Seeing the Unseen 249 23 The Tragic Tale of a Genius 261 24 Wise Man 275 IV PERSONAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL 25 The World, the Flesh, and the Devil 293 26 The Same and Not the Same 311 27 The Quotable Einstein 315 28 Is God in the Lab? 321 29 This Side Idolatry 331 30 Of Beauty and Consolation 337 31 One in a Million 343 32 Star Maker 357 33 Religion from the Outside 363 V BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTES 377
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Science.
Physics.
Science -- History.
Science -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Dyson, Freeman J. -- Biography.
Scientists -- United States -- Biography.