Book:Martin Gardner/The Sacred Beetle and Other Great Essays in Science

Revised edition of from 1957

Contents

 * Preface


 * Prologue: FRANCIS BACON
 * The Sphinx (1609)


 * CHARLES DARWIN
 * Recapitulation and Conclusion (1859)


 * JOHN DEWEY
 * The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy (1909)


 * STEPHEN JAY GOULD
 * Nonmoral Nature (1982)


 * WILLIAM JAMES
 * The Problem of Being (1911)


 * HAVELOCK ELLIS
 * What Makes a Woman Beautiful? (1905)


 * JEAN HENRI FABRE
 * The Sacred Beetle (1918)


 * GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON
 * The Logic of Elfland (1908)


 * CARL SAGAN
 * Can We Know the Universe? Reflections on a Grain of Salt (1979)


 * JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH
 * The Colloid and the Crystal (1950)


 * JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET
 * The Barbarism of "Specialization" (1932)


 * THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY
 * Science and Culture (1893)


 * JOHN BURROUGHS
 * Science and Literature (1889)


 * ISAAC ASIMOV
 * Science and Beauty (1983)


 * ERNEST NAGEL
 * Automation (1955)


 * JONATHAN NORTON LEONARD
 * Other-Worldly Life (1953)


 * J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER
 * Physics in the Contemporary World (1955)


 * ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD
 * Religion and Science (1925)


 * JOHN DOS PASSOS
 * Proteus (1930)


 * JULIAN HUXLEY
 * An Essay on Bird-Mind (1923)


 * ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON
 * The Decline of Determinism (1934)


 * ALDOUS HUXLEY
 * Science in the Brave New World (1932)


 * RACHEL CARSON
 * The Sunless Sea (1951)


 * MAURICE MAETERLINCK
 * The Nuptial Flight (1901)


 * H. G. WELLS
 * The New Source of Energy (1914)
 * Science and Ultimate Truth (1931)


 * LAURA FERMI
 * Success (1954)


 * SAMUEL GOUDSMIT
 * The Gestapo in Science (1947)


 * ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
 * Pan's Pipes (1876)


 * SIGMUND FREUD
 * Dreams of the Death of Beloved Persons (1900)


 * BERTRAND RUSSELL
 * The Science to Save Us from Science (1950)
 * The Greatness of Albert Einstein (1955)


 * ALBERT EINSTEIN
 * $$E = mc^2$$ (1946)


 * LEWIS THOMAS
 * Seven Wonders (1983)


 * Index