Foreword by Roger Penrose 引言
NATURE AND THE GREEKS 自然与希腊
Ⅰ The motives for returning to ancient thought
Ⅱ The competition, reason v. senses
Ⅲ The Pythagoreans
Ⅳ The Ionian Enlightenment
Ⅴ The religion of Xenophanes.Heraclitus of Ephesus
Ⅵ The Atomists
Ⅶ What are the special features?
Bibliography
SCIENCE AND HUMANISM 科学与人文
Preface
The spiritual bearing of science on life
on life
The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import
true import
A radical change in our ideas of matter Form, not substance, the
fundamental concept
The nature of our'models'
Continuous description and causality
The intricacy of the continuum
The makeshift of wave mechanics
The alleged break-down of the barrier
between subject and object Atoms or quanta-the counter-spell of old standing, to escape the intricacy of the continuum Would physical indeterminacy
give free will a chance? The bar to prediction, according
to Niels Bohr
Literature
后记:哲学是科学的后花园