Great Essays in Science Author:Martin Gardner (Editor) Thirty essays by twenty-eight leading scientists and science writers on the speculative imagination, the characteristics of scientific inquiry, the philosophy of science, and in some essays, the details of the writer's field of study. Includes essays and articles by Francis Bacon, Charles Darwin, John Dewey, William James, Havelock Ell... more »is, G. K. Chesterton, Joseph Wood Krutch, Ortega y Gasset, Thomas Huxley, John Burroughs, Robert Oppenhewimer, Alfred North Whitehead, Aldous Huxley, Rachel Carson, H. G. Wells, Robert Louis Stevenson, Sigmund Freud, Bertrand Russell, Albert Einstein, and about ten more. Edited by Martin Gardner, with his Preface; original copyright 1957.« less