J. Robert Oppenheimer was one of the outstanding physicists of his generation. He was also an immensely gifted writer and speaker, who thought deeply about the way that scientific discoveries have changed the way people live and think. Displaying his subtlety of thought and expression as do few other documents, this book of his lectures discusses the moral and cultural implications of developments in modern physics.
Originally published in 1989.
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*FrontMatter, pg. i*Contents, pg. v*Preface, pg. vii*CHAPTER ONE.
Newton: The Path of Light, pg. 3*CHAPTER TWO. Science as Action: Rutherford's
World, pg. 16*CHAPTER THREE. A Science in Change, pg. 28*CHAPTER FOUR. Atom
and Void in the Third Millennium, pg. 40*CHAPTER FIVE. Uncommon Sense, pg.
52*CHAPTER SIX. The Sciences and Man's Community, pg. 64*CHAPTER SEVEN. The
Open Mind, pg. 76*CHAPTER EIGHT. Space and Time, pg. 85*CHAPTER NINE. Atom
and Field, pg. 113*CHAPTER TEN. War and the Nations, pg. 133*Appendix I, pg.
143*Appendix II, pg. 154*Acknowledgments, pg. 157
