Volume 10, Number 7 · April 11, 1968
The Book of Arthur
By Stephen Toulmin
The Ghost in the Machine
by Arthur Koestler
Macmillan, 384 pp., $6.95
What do we demand of Science? Vitamin-reinforced bread and astronautical circuses; Genesis according to Hoyle and the Revelations of Teilhard the Divine; piecemeal, tentative theories about those aspects of nature that we can now bring into focus; or a bit of all three? That question must not be answered in a hurry. For all three ambitions—technological, theological, and philosophical—have been operative throughout the development of scientific thought, and its history could be written with an eye to the changing balance between them.
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