Of One Mind: The Collectivization of ScienceThis superb collection by the eminent physicist and critic John Ziman, opens with an album of portraits of scientists--Albert Einstein, Freeman Dyson, Lev Landau, Mark Azbel, Andrei Sakharov. Ziman takes readers into the world of the contemporary scientist, showing how discoveries are made and how claims are tested. He then travels into the minds of scientists as they are drawn into competing directions. Here Ziman exposes the path of discovery, which is strewn with complex human needs, governmental restrictions, the desire for profits, and the exercise of technical virtuosity. |
Contents
LONELY SEEKERS AFTER TRUTH | 1 |
Portrait of a Disappointed Scientific Soul | 13 |
On the Refusenik Mark Azbel 2323 | 29 |
Resolving Little Local Difficulties | 37 |
Serendipity | 42 |
A Billion Years a Week | 49 |
Processing Words and Thoughts | 55 |
Science in at Least Three Dimensions | 65 |
Expansionists and Restrictionists | 154 |
THE WORLD BEYOND SCIENCE | 161 |
Basic Principles | 181 |
Social Responsibility in Victorian Science | 200 |
Rights and Responsibilities in Research | 225 |
Science Education for the Real World | 233 |
INTO THE SOCIAL DIMENSION | 239 |
What Are the Options? | 265 |
Pushing Back Frontiers or Redrawing Maps | 87 |
What Is Your Specialty? 99 66 | 99 |
GUARDING THE FRONTIERS | 117 |
Out of the Parlor into the Laboratory | 123 |
Fudging the Facts | 132 |
Reconstructing the Reality of Scientific Growth | 139 |
What Shall We Look into Now? | 147 |
Publish or Perish? | 311 |
The Collectivization of Science | 337 |
The Individual in a Collectivized Profession | 360 |
On Being a Physicist | 379 |
Acknowledgments | 395 |
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