Science sparks the imagination. Man among the stars --
Invasion from Mars / Howard Koch --
Flight to Malacandra / C.S. Lewis --
Our distant cousins / Lord Dunsany --
Man upon the seas. The Nautilus reaches the Pole / Jules Verne --
A descent into the maelstrom / Edgar Allan Poe --
Man and his earth. John Thomas's cube / John Leimert --
In hiding / Wilmar H. Shiras --
Split cherry tree / Jesse Stuart --
Cabinet decision / Nigel Balchin --
Dr. Southport Vulpes's nightmare / Bertrand Russell --
The portable phonograph / Walter Van Tilburg Clark --
By the waters of Babylon / Stephen Vincent Benét.
Eureka! Some general observations. On sharing in the conquests of science / Harlow Shapley --
Science and the imagination / Waldemar Kaempffert --
From first step to last / Hans Zinsser.
Eureka! Some general observations. Founders and finders. The golden crown : Archimedes ; Swing of a pendulum : Galileo / Zsolt de Harsanyi --
In the elaboratory / Humphrey Newton --
An apple falls / Louis Trenchard More --
On certain animalcules ; Even a lady's teeth / Antony van Leeuwenhoek --
Mr. Franklin : Philadelphia Promethus / Carl Van Doren --
The discovery of oxygen / Joseph Priestley --
In a carriage / Charles Darwin --
On a bus / Friedrich Kekulé --
and a child's life is saved! /
Eureka! Some general observations. Team workers. The campers at Kitty Hawk / John Dos Passos --
Portrait of Madame Curie / Albert Einstein --
The discovery of radium / Eve Curie --
Landing in the new world / Arthur H. Compton --
The great theory tested / Philipp Frank --
The order of nature / Alfred North Whitehead --
Self-portrait / Albert Einstein --
Monuments of method. The man of science. The blood of the martyrs / Stephen Vincent Benét --
Portrait of a scientist / Sinclair Lewis --
A letter to Charles Kingsley / Thomas Henry Huxley --
The life of solitude / Albert Einstein --
In silent rooms / Carl Sandburg.
Monuments of method. The many methods of science. We are all scientists / Thomas Henry Huxley --
Paradox / Clarence R. Wylie, Jr. --
The unique achievement of Greece / Herbert J. Muller --
The sacred disease ; Case history no. XV / Hippocrates --
The training of Aristotle / Alfred Noyes --
Here, too, are gods / Aristotle --
See for yourself / Hippocratic Collection --
Eels and embryo chicks / Aristotle --
The story of matter / Lucretius --
The study of anatomy / Galen --
Peter Peregrine as experimentalist / Roger Bacon --
Experimenting with magnets / Peter Peregrine --
A plea for experimentation ; Natural marvels
We are beholden to experiments / Thomas Sprat --
English for the English / Geoffrey Chaucer --
Words and matter ; Marriage of the faculties / Francis Bacon.
Monuments of method. The many methods of science. Mathematics and the laws of nature / Hermann Weyl --
Bring arguments and proofs / Galileo Galilei --
A new theory about light and colors ; Rules of reasoning in philosophy ; I frame no hypotheses / Isaac Newton --
No holds barred / Percy W. Bridgman --
Benjamin Franklin : electrician / Carl Van Doren --
Incidental discovery : what is heat? / Benjamin Thompson --
Accidental discovery : Galvani and Volta / James B. Conant --
The blunderbuss method / Paul de Kruif --
Mechanisms of discovery / René J. Dubos --
Planning unplanned research / Irving Langmuir --
Yellow jack / Sidney Howard --
Chimpanzees as servants of science / Robert M. Yerkes --
The story of the electron microscope / James Hillier --
A master key : the spectroscope / George R. Harrison --
The idea of chance in science / Jacob Bronowski --
Parable of the fishing net ; Epilogue : new pathways in science / Sir Arthur Eddington.
Literary naturalists. The wonder of the world / Sir J. Arthur Thomson, Patrick Geddes --
Brute neighbors / Henry David Thoreau --
A descent into perpetual night / William Beebe --
Fishes in armor / Myron Gordon --
The changing year / Rachel Carson --
The sperm whale's head / Herman Melville --
The intelligence of birds / Julian Huxley --
A storm is born / George R. Stewart --
The plains of Patagonia / W.H. Hudson --
Polar night / Richard E. Byrd --
A jaunt to the limits of the universe / Lloyd Motz --
The people of Tierra del Fuego / Charles Darwin --
Patterns of culture : the dance / Ruth Benedict --
On being the right size / J.B.S. Haldane --
The neurosis wears a mask / Lawrence S. Kubie --
The colloid and the crystal / Joseph Wood Krutch --
Common sense and the universe / Stephen Leacock --
The universe and me, or, How to understand the wonders of science / Jack Goodman, Alan Green --
Lines in dispraise of dispraise / Ogden Nash.
The gift of Prometheus. The work of his hands--
Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth : the book of Job --
All arts of mortals from Prometheus spring / Aeschylus --
All things flow / Lucretius.
The gift of Prometheus. Science : Promethean or Mephistophelean. Nature rehabilitated / Basil Willey --
From Dr. Faustus / Christopher Marlowe --
Knowledge infinite / Christopher Marlowe --
The ordered universe / William Shakespeare --
The new philosophy calls all in doubt / John Donne --
Solomon's house / Francis Bacon --
The book of God / John Milton --
The spacious firmament / Joseph Addison --
Of God above or man below
The proper study of mankind / Alexander Pope --
And don't go near the water / Thomas Shadwell --
Laputan projects / Jonathan Swift.
The gift of Prometheus. Two ways of seeing. New myths, new symbols / Lewis Mumford --
Three rainbows / James Thomson, William Wordsworth, John Keats --
Mock on, mock on! ; A new Jerusalem / William Blake --
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey / William Wordsworth --
Immortal drink ; Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats --
The dance of matter / Sir Humphry Davy --
The dance of matter : the motion of the spheres ; The dance of light : the cycle of the waters ; The dance of mind : new reading of ancient myth / Percy Bysshe Shelley.
The gift of Prometheus. Faith and unfaith : advancing science challenges established creed. Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold --
Ah, yet consider it again ; With whom is no variableness ; The latest decalogue / Arthur Hugh Clough --
From In memoriam A.H.H. ; By an evolutionist ; Flower in the crannied wall ; Crossing the bar / Alfred, Lord Tennyson --
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám / Edward Fitzgerald --
Nature without check ; When I heard the learn'd astronomer ; Miracles / Walt Whitman --
Lucifer in starlight / George Meredith --
O world / George Santayana --
Each in his own tongue / William Herbert Carruth --
The far-seeing eye / Temple Rice Hollcroft.
The gift of Prometheus. Our place among the infinities. Pulvis et umbra / Robert Louis Stevenson --
Man's fate / Bertrand Russell --
What is the meaning of this city / T.S. Eliot --
Mother Goose's garland ; Seafarer ; Lines for a prologue ; You, Andrew Marvell ; Epistle to be left in the earth / Archibald MacLeish --
Star splitter ; Riders ; Desert places ; Fire and ice ; A considerable speck ; A loose mountain / Robert Frost.
The world we make. Evolution at the mind's cinema / Julian Huxley --
Dreams and promises. Taming the elements / Thomas Jefferson --
On the advisableness of improving natural knowledge / Thomas Henry Huxley --
The encouragement of science / J. Robert Oppenheimer --
Dream and disillusion. I dipt into the future ; Cosmos, chaos! / Alfred, Lord Tennyson.
The world we make. Knowledge comes--
Science and society / Albert Einstein --
The case of the man from Mexico / Berton Roueché --
A whole heart for Ramona / Gladys Denny Shultz --
The man with the hoe / Edwin Markham --
The child-slaves of England / Bertrand Russell --
Machines to do our work / Edward Bellamy --
The river / Pare Lorentz --
Our plundered planet / Fairfield Osborn.
But wisdom lingers. The atom.
A first reaction to the atomic bomb / John W. Campbell --
Able day : atomic testing / David Bradley --
The equation / Gerhard Friedrich --
A message to intellectuals / Albert Einstein --
In bondage to a central authority / Aldous Huxley --
The machine stops / E.M. Forster --
The morning of the day they did it / E.B. White --
The limitations of science / Laurence A. Hawkins --
How to get the most out of science / I. Bernard Cohen --
Toward a greater America / David E. Lilienthal --
Faith in science / I.I. Rabi.
