Table of Contents: “…Part 4: Ways Of Science -- Scientists' lives and works -- Albert Einstein / John Archibald Wheeler -- Autobiographical notes / Albert Einstein -- Tribute to Max Planck / Albert Einstein -- Rutherford / C P Snow -- Dirac / Jagdish Mehra -- Hilbert / Paul A M Dirac -- Quest for order / John Tierney -- Legend of John von Neumann / P R Halmos -- On the beach / Andrew Hodges -- Ramanujan and Pi / Jonathan M Borwein and Peter B Borwein -- Paul Erdos: mathematician / Lee Dembart -- Man of science-Abdus Salam / Nigel Calder -- Two shakers of physics: memorial lecture for Sin-itiro Tomonaga / Julian Schwinger -- Robert Wilson and the building of Fermilab / Philip J Hilts -- Los Alamos / Stanislaw M Ulam -- Coming into my own / Luis W Alvarez -- Two cultures / C P Snow -- Women in science / Vivian Gornick -- Iron / Primo Levi -- Poetry of science -- When I heard the learn'd astronomer / Walt Whitman -- I am like a slip of comet / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Arcturus / Emily Dickinson -- Star-swirls / Robinson Jeffers -- Galaxy / Richard Ryan -- Molecular evolution / James Clerk Maxwell -- Atomic architecture / A M Sullivan -- Seeing things / Howard Nemerov -- Cosmic gall / John Updike -- Nomad / Anthony Piccione -- Little cosmic dust poem / John Haines -- Connoisseur of chaos / Wallace Stevens -- Kings of the world / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Windy planet / Annie Dillard -- Space shuttle / Diane Ackerman -- Epistemology / Richard Wilbur -- What science says to truth / William Watson -- from An essay on man / Alexander Pope -- True enough: to the physicist / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- About Planck time / George Bradley -- Observatory ode / John Frederick Nims -- Philosophy and science -- Nature of science / Isaac Asimov -- Art of discovery / Horace Freeland Judson -- Structure of scientific revolutions / Thomas S Kuhn -- Logic of scientific discovery / Karl Popper -- Causality and complementarity / Niels Bohr -- from Letters to Max Born / Albert Einstein -- Black magic and white magic / Jacob Bronowski -- Positivism, metaphysics, and religion / Werner Heisenberg -- Science and religion / Albert Einstein -- Acknowledgments -- Index.…”

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Table of Contents: “…Merwin -- Moy sand and gravel / Paul Muldoon -- Poet's work / Lorine Niedecker -- Naphtha / Frank O'Hara -- Pslam / George Oppen -- Chemo side effects: memory / Elise Partridge -- Bethsabe's song / George Peele -- Nick and the candlestick / Sylvia Plath -- On the cards and dice / Sir Walter Raleigh -- Diving into the wreck / Adrienne Rich -- Archaic torso of Apollo / Rainer Maria Rilke -- For my father / Philip Schultz -- Glories of our blood and state / James Shirley -- Lamentation on Ur / Tom Sleigh -- Behaving like a Jew / Gerald Stern -- Madame La Fleurie / Wallace Stevens -- Snow man / Wallace Stevens -- Land of counterpane / Robert Louis Stevenson -- Star / Jane Taylor -- Italian music in Dakota / Walt Whitman -- Turtle / William Carlos Williams -- Lines / William Wordsworth -- Lake isle of Innisfree / William Butler Yeats.…”