Read article: Facing up to the mystery of God
“Science without religion is lame, but religion without science is blind.” Einstein’s teasing remark is just one of the many contributions by scientists to religious thought that hav...
Read article: History found in a grain of sand
Hari Seldon, the fictional creator of “psychohistory” in Isaac Asimov’s “Foundation” series of novels, predicts the imminent demise of the First Galactic Empire after a 1...
The mathematician and philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once wrote: “When we consider what religion is for mankind, and what science is, it is no exaggeration to say that the future course of h...
Thomas Kuhn is famous for writing the surprise best-seller The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Who would have thought that a book published in 1962 on the history of science would turn out to be ...
Read article: How to survive the 21st century
What is happening to the subject that we have loved and served? More than any other discipline, physics has transformed the face of civilization, particularly during the last century. It has developed...
Read article: Why science thrives on criticism
The first Critical Point column by historian of science Robert P Crease
Mike Fortun and Herbert Bernstein’s book is a masterpiece – a particularly intelligent, useful and unusual book. It will constitute, I strongly believe, a solid mooring point to help us fa...
Read article: Physics: past, present, future
What happens when you ask some of the world's leading physicists seven questions about the past, present and future of physics?
Read article: The social conscience of scientists
Joseph Rotblat says scientists need to accept responsibility for the human and environmental consequences of their research,.
“The entire scope of human experience can be viewed as a collective effect resulting from elementary particles dutifully following well-understood equations.” Statements like this excite d...
