Great essays in science

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Title page Preface Prologue 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 Elf land CARLSAGAN Can We Know the Universe? Reflections on a Grain of Salt JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH The Colloid and the Crystal JOSfi ORTEGA Y GASSET The Barbarism of "Specialization " THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY Science and Culture JOHN BURROUGHS Science and Literature ISAAC ASIMOV Science and Beauty ERNEST NAGEL Automation JONATHAN NORTON LEONARD Other-Worldly Life J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER Physics in the Contemporary World ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD Religion and 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 and Ultimate Truth LAURA FERMI Success SAMUEL GOUDSMTT 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