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

The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its 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