Articles of Historical Interest: A Collection of Scientific Interdisciplinary Literature

 

(alphabetically listed by author)

Duncan Aikman, Lemaitre follows two paths to truth. The famous physicist, who is also a priest, tells why he finds no conflict between science and religion

The New York Times, February 19, 1933

Philip W. Anderson, "More Is Different, Broken symmetry and the nature of the hierarchical structure of science"

Science, New Series, 177 (1972), 393-396.

Alain Aspect, Philippe Grangier, Gérard Roger, "Experimental Realization of Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen-Bohm Gedankenexperiment: A New Violation of Bell's Inequalities"

Physical Review Letters, July 1982, Vol. 42, No. 2, 91-94.

Francisco J. Ayala, "Teleological Explanations in Evolutionary Biology"

Philosophy of Science, 37 (1970), No. 1, 1-15

John S. Bell, "On The Einstein Podolsky Rosen Paradox"

Physics (1964), Vol. 1, No. 3, 195-200.

Wallace S. Broecker, Climatic Change: Are We on the Brink of a Pronounced Global Warming?

Science 189 (1975): 460-463

Nicolas L.S. Carnot, "Réflexions sur la puissance motrice du feu et sur le machines propes à développer cette puissance"

Annales scientifiques de l'É.N.S. 2° série. tome 1 (1872), 393-457.

Francis H. Crick, "Central Dogma of Molecular Biology"

Nature, 227 (1970), 561-563

Theodosius Dobzhansky, Montague F. Ashley Montagu, "Natural Selection and the Mental Capacities of Mankind"

Science, 106 (1947), 587-590.

Theodosius Dobzhansky, "Nothing in Biology Makes Sense except in the Light of Evolution"

The American Biology Teacher, 35 (1973), No. 3, 125-129.

Renato Dulbecco, "A Turning Point in Cancer Research: Sequencing the Human Genome"

Science, Vol. 231 (1986), 1055-1056.

Albert Einstein, "Concerning an Heuristic Point of View Toward the Emission and Transformation of Light"

Ann. Phys. 17 (1905) 132, 1-15.

Albert Einstein, Boris Podolsky, Nathan Rosen, "Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?"

Physical Review (1935), Vol. 47, 777-780

Marcus W. Feldman, Luigi L. Cavalli-Sforza, "Cultural and Biological Evolutionary Processes, Selection for a Trait under Complex Transmission"

Theoretical Population Biology 9 (1976), 238-259.

Michael B. Foster, "The Christian Doctrine of Creation and the Rise of Modern Natural Science"

Mind 43 (1934), 446-468

Gottlob Frege, "Sense and Reference"

The Philosophical Review, May 1948, Vol. 57, No. 3, 209-230 (German Original 1892).

Stephen J. Gould, Elisabeth S. Vrba, "Exaptation— a missing term in the science of form"

Paleobiology, 8 (1982), No. 1, 4-15

Robert B. Laughlin, David Pines, Joerg Schmalian, Branko P. Stojković, Peter G. Wolynes, "The middle way"

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 97 (2000), No. 1, 32-37.

Georges Lemaître , The Beginning of the World from the Point of View of Quantum Theory

Nature (May 1931), Vol. 127, No. 3210, 706.

James G. Lennox, Darwin was a Teleologist

Biology and Philosophy 8 (1993), 409-421.

Ernst W. Mayr, The Autonomy of Biology. The Position of Biology among the Sciences

The Quarterly Review of Biology, 71, (1996), No 1, 97-106

Willard V. Quine, "Two Dogmas of Empiricism"

The Philosophical Review, January 1951, Vol. 60, No. 1, 20-43

Richard Rudner, "The Scientist qua Scientist makes Value Judgments"

Philosophy of Science 20 (1953), 1-6

Alfred Tarski, The Semantic Conception of Truth: and the Foundations of Semantics

Philosophy and Phenomenological Research, Vol. 4, No. 3 (Mar., 1944), pp. 341-376

Charles H. Townes, "The Convergence of Science and Religion"

IBM's Think, April 1, 1966, Vol. 32, No. 2, 2-7

Alan M. Turing, "Computing Machinery and Intelligence"

Mind 59 (1950), 433-460

Conrad H. Waddington, "Genetic Assimilation of an Acquired Character"

Evolution, (June 1953), Vol. 7, No. 2, 118-126

James D. Watson, Francis H. Crick, "Molecular Structure of Nucleic Acids"

Nature, April 25, 1953, No. 4356, 737.

Lynn T. White Jr., The Historical Roots of Our Ecological Crisis

Science 155 (1967), 1203-1207

Allan C. Wilson, "The Molecular Basis of Evolution"

Scientific American, October 1985, Vol. 253, No. 4, 164-173