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Great Essays in Science : Isaac Asimov, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, John Dewey, Albert Einstein, Jean Henri Fabre, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Jay Gould, Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, William James, Ernest Nagel, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sagan, Lewis Thomas, H.G. Wells and Others by Martin Gardner is a science book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Great Essays in Science : Isaac Asimov, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, John Dewey, Albert Einstein, Jean Henri Fabre, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Jay Gould, Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, William James, Ernest Nagel, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sagan, Lewis Thomas, H.G. Wells and Others about?
The sphinx / Francis Bacon -- Recapitulation and conclusion / Charles Darwin -- The influence of darwinism on philosophy / John Dewey -- Nonmoral nature / Stephen Jay Gould -- The problem of being / William James -- What makes a woman beautiful? / Havelock Ellis -- The sacred beetle / Jean Henri Fabre -- The logic of elfland / Gilbert Keith Chesterton -- Can we know the universe? Reflections on a grain of salt / Carl Sagan -- The colloid and the crystal / Joseph Wood Krutch -- The barbarism of "specialization" / Jose Ortega Y Gasset -- Science and culture / Thomas Henry Huxley -- Science and literature / John Burroughs -- Science and beauty / Isaac Asimov -- Automation / Ernest Nagel -- Other-worldly life / Jonathan Norton Leonard -- Physics in the contemporary world / J. Robert Oppenheimer -- Religion and science / Alfred North Whitehead -- Proteus / John Dos Passos -- Julian Huxley / An essay on bird-mind -- The decline of determinism / Arthur Stanley Eddington -- Science in the brave new world / Aldous Huxley -- The sunless sea / Rachel Carson -- The nuptial flight / Naurice Maeterlinck -- The new source of energy science and ultimate truth / H. G. Wells -- Success / Laura Fermi
Who reads Great Essays in Science : Isaac Asimov, Rachel Carson, Charles Darwin, John Dewey, Albert Einstein, Jean Henri Fabre, Sigmund Freud, Stephen Jay Gould, Aldous Huxley, Julian Huxley, William James, Ernest Nagel, Bertrand Russell, Carl Sagan, Lewis Thomas, H.G. Wells and Others?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Martin Gardner
- Publisher
- Prometheus Books, Publishers
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780879758530
- Category
- science
- Subjects
- Science, Stem
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (18 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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