| Preface | xiii | |
| Prologue | 1 | |
| FRANCIS BACON | The Sphinx | 1 |
| CHARLES DARWIN | Recapitulation and Conclusion | 5 |
| JOHN DEWEY | The Influence of Darwinism on Philosophy | 18 |
| STEPHEN JAY GOULD | Nonmoral Nature | 32 |
| WILLIAM JAMES | The Problem of Being | 46 |
| HAVELOCK ELLIS | What Makes a Woman Beautiful? | 53 |
| JEAN HENRI FABRE | The Sacred Beetle | 73 |
| GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON | The Logic of Elfland | 95 |
| CARL SAGAN | Can We Know the Universe? Reflections on a Grain of Salt | 102 |
| JOSEPH WOOD KRUTCH | The Colloid and the Crystal | 110 |
| JOSÉ ORTEGA Y GASSET | The Barbarism of "Specialization" | 121 |
| THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY | Science and Culture | 130 |
| JOHN BURROUGHS | Science and Literature | 149 |
| ISAAC ASIMOV | Science and Beauty | 167 |
| ERNEST NAGEL | Automation | 173 |
| JONATHAN NORTON LEONARD | Other-Worldly Life | 181 |
| J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER | Physics in the Contemporary World | 196 |
| ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD | Religion and Science | 215 |
| JOHN DOS PASSOS | Proteus | 229 |
| JULIAN HUXLEY | An Essay on Bird-Mind | 233 |
| ARTHUR STANLEY EDDINGTON | The Decline of Determinism | 251 |
| ALDOUS HUXLEY | Science in the Brave New World | 273 |
| RACHEL CARSON | The Sunless Sea | 286 |
| MAURICE MAETERLINCK | The Nuptial Flight | 305 |
| H.G. WELLS | The New Source of Energy | 321 |
| Science and Ultimate Truth | 330 | |
| LAURA FERMI | Success | 336 |
| SAMUEL GOUDSMIT | The Gestapo in Science | 349 |
| ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON | Pan's Pipes | 368 |
| SIGMUND FREUD | Dreams of the Death of Beloved Persons | 374 |
| BERTRAND RUSSELL | The Science to Save Us from Science | 397 |
| The Greatness of Albert Einstein | 408 | |
| ALBERT EINSTEIN | E=mc2 | 413 |
| LEWIS THOMAS | Seven Wonders | 419 |