Preface to this site

The essays in this site are selected by the manager of the CFRL website to help young and young-in-spirit scientists to realize what is science.

Our culture in the 21^st century stands on the brink of the precipice due to the destruction of its basis – the global environment. We have to realize now that the saying “Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed.” (Pascal, Pansées, 347) expresses a superficial character of human beings and that their fundamental character is tough enough to be going to destroy whole world.

We have to seek now a culture including science consistent with environment. The essays collected below will serve readers very much to do so.

Essays in Science in English

1. Physics, Community and the Crisis in Physical Theory

(PHYSICS TODAY, NOVEMBER 1993, 34-40)

Silvan S. Schweber

2. Progress in Science and Religion

A Talk By Freeman Dyson (2000)

3. Paul Ehrenfest – The Making of a Theoretical Physicist,

(on Bohr’s Model of Atoms excerpt from pp. 276 – 279)

M.J. Klein, North Holland, 1970

4. Hypothesis in Physics

E. Poincare, Science and Hypothesis

5. The Fundaments of Theoretical Physics

A. Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

6. A New Rationality?

I. Prigogine, The End of Certainty

7. The Common Sense of Science

J. Bronowski, The Common Sense of Science

8.　Deceit in History

W. Broad and N. Wade, Betrayers of the Truth ― Fraud and Deceit in the halls of Science ―

9. Theory, Model and Hypothesis

H. Kozima, Based on The Science of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon, Appendix B.