| Featured Writers and Extracts |
| Introduction |
| What Scientists Study / Part I： |
| The Mysterious Universe / James Jeans |
| Just Six Numbers / Martin Rees |
| Creation Revisited / Peter Atkins |
| The Ant and The Peacock / Helena Cronin |
| The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection / R. A. Fisher |
| Mankind Evolving / Theodosius Dobzhansky |
| Adaptation and Natural Selection / G. C.Williams |
| Life Itself / Francis Crick |
| Genome / Matt Ridley |
| 'Theoretical Biology in The Third Millennium' / Sydney Brenner |
| The Language of The Genes / Steve Jones |
| 'On Being The Right Size' / J B. S. Haldane |
| The Explanation of Organic Diversity / Mark Ridley |
| 'The Importance of The Nervous System In The Evolution Of Animal Flight' / John Maynard Smith |
| Man In The Universe / Fred Hoyle |
| On Growth and Form / D'Arcy Thompson |
| The Meaning of Evolution / G. G. Simpson |
| Trilobite! / Richard Fortey |
| The Mind Machine / Colin Blakemore |
| Mirrors In Mind / Richard Gregory |
| 'One Self: A Meditation on The Unity of Consciousness' / Nicholas Humphrey |
| The Language Instinct and How The Mind Works / Steven Pinker |
| The Rise and Fall of The Third Chimpanzee / Jared Diamond |
| The Life of The Robin / David Lack |
| Curious Naturalists / Niko Tinbergen |
| Social Evolution / Robert Trivers |
| The Open Sea / Alister Hardy |
| The Sea Around Us / Rachel Carson |
| 'How Flowers Changed The World' / Loren Eiseley |
| The Diversity of Life / Edward O. Wilson |
| Who Scientists Are / Part II： |
| The Expanding Universe / Arthur Eddington |
| The Foreword to C. H. Hardy's A Mathematician's Apology / C. P. Snow |
| Disturbing The Universe / Freeman Dyson |
| 'War and The Nations' / J. Robert Oppenheimer |
| 'A Passion for Crystals' / Max F. Perutz |
| 'Said Ryle to Hoyle' / Barbara ; George Gamow |
| 'Cancer's A Funny Thing' / J. B. S. Haldane |
| The Identity of Man / Jacob Bronowski |
| 'Science and Literature', 'Darwin's Illness', 'The Phenomenon Of Man', the postscript to 'Lucky Jim', and 'D'Arcy Thompson and Growth and Form' / Peter Medawar |
| Self-Made Man / Jonathan Kingdon |
| Origins Reconsidered / Richard Leakey ; Roger Lewin |
| Lucy / Donald C. Johanson ; Maitland A. Edey |
| 'Worm For A Century, and All Seasons' / Stephen Jay Gould |
| Life Cycles / John Tyler Bonner |
| Uncle Tungsten / Oliver Sacks |
| 'Seven Wonders' / Lewis Thomas |
| Avoid Boring People / James Watson |
| What Mad Pursuit |
| The Unnatural Nature of Science / Lewis Wolpert |
| Essays of a Biologist / Julian Huxley |
| 'Religion and Science' / Albert Einstein |
| The Dem On-Haunted World / Carl Sagan |
| What Scientists Think / Part III： |
| The Character of Physical Law / Richard Feynman |
| What Is Life? / Erwin Schrödinger |
| Darwin's Dangerous Idea and Consciousness Explained / Daniel Dennett |
| The Growth of Biological Thought / Ernst Mayr |
| 'The Tragedy of The Commons' / Garrett Hardin |
| Geometry For The Selfish Herd and Narrow Roads Of Geneland / W. D. Hamilton |
| How Nature Works / Per Bak |
| The Fantastic Combinations of John Conway's New Solitaire Game 'Life' / Martin Gardner |
| Mathematics For The Million / Lancelot Hogben |
| The Miraculous Jar / Ian Stewart |
| The Mathematical Theory of Communication / Claude E. Shannon ; Warren Weaver |
| Computing Machinery and Intelligence / Alan Turing |
| 'What Is The Theory of Relativity?' |
| Mr Tompkins |
| The Goldilocks Enigma / Paul Davies |
| The Time And Space of Uncle Albert / Russell Stannard |
| The Elegant Universe / Brian Greene |
| A Brief History Of Time / Stephen Hawking |
| What Scientists Delight In / Part IV： |
| Truth and Beauty / S. Chandrasekhar |
| A Mathematician's Apology / G. H. Hardy |
| Dreams of A Final Theory / Steven Weinberg |
| The Life of The Cosmos / Lee Smolin |
| The Emperor's New Mind / Roger Penrose |
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: The Eternal Golden Braid / Douglas Hofstadter |
| Geons, Black Holes, And Quantum Foam / John Archibald Wheeler ; Kenneth Ford |
| The Fabric of Reality / David Deutsch |
| The Periodic Table / Primo Levi |
| Life: An Unauthorized Biography |
| Little Men and Flying Saucers / George Gaylord Simpson |
| Pale Blue Dot |
| Acknowledgements |
| Index |
| Featured Writers and Extracts |
| Introduction |
| What Scientists Study / Part I： |
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