The Scientist as Rebel
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Contemporary issues in science -- The scientist as rebel -- Can science be ethical? -- The deep hot biosphere -- The cosmic connection -- The future needs us -- What a world! -- Einstein in Berlin -- War and peace -- Nuclear disaster -- Generals -- Russians -- Pacifists -- The race is over -- The force of reason -- The bitter end -- History of science and scientists -- Mathematics and physics -- Edward teller's memoirs -- In praise of amateurs -- A new Newton -- Clockwork science -- The world on a string -- Oppenheimer as scientist, administrator, and poet -- Seeing the unseen -- The tragic tale of a genius -- Wise man -- Personal and philosophical -- The world, the flesh, and the devil -- The same and not the same -- The quotable Einstein -- Is God in the lab? -- This side idolatry -- Of beauty and consolation -- One in a million -- Star maker -- Religion from the outside.
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PUBLISHED
New York : New York Review Books, c2006.
Year Published: 2006
Description: 360 p.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
1590172167 (alk. paper)
SUBJECTS
Science.
Physics.
Science -- History.
Science -- Moral and ethical aspects.
Scientists -- Biography.
Dyson, Freeman J. -- Biography.