The Meaning of It All (13 page)

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Abject honesty,
106

Action

making choices,
44–45

results of,
45

Adventure, scientific spirit of,
47

Advertising

as perpetually insulting,
87

in television,
85

Age

heroic,
62–63

unscientific,
59–122

Alternative theories,
69

Americanism Center, Altadena,
99

Analogy

dangers in arguing from,
117

work by,
121

Ancients and imagination,
10

Anecdotes,
82–83

Answers, insistence on,
66

Arabian scholars of science,
115

Arguing from analogy,
117

Art, modem,
55

Atheists,
36
,
40–41

Atomic bomb, testing,
108

Atoms,
12
,
14

Authority, feelings toward,
61

Bacteria, proteins of,
11–12

Beliefs

in existence of God,
38

religious,
43

Bible, predicting phenomena,
94–95

Biology, science of,
53–54
,
62

Birch Society,
100

Boogie man,
103

Brain, imagination of human,
22

Brave New World
(Huxley),
120

California, real estate in,
96

Campaign promises,
66

Candles,
13–14

Chance,
80–81

Change, experiencing,
67

Chemical History of a Candle
(Faraday),
13–14

Chemistry,
15

Christ, nondivinity of,
44

Christians,
121–22

ethics,
44
,
47–48

Christian Science,
93–94

Civilization, Western,
47

Coincidence,
82–83

Commentators,
88–89

Communication,
31

Conclusions

attaining,
65–66

uncertainty of,
26

Conflicts,
43–44

between nations,
48

Congressmen, ratings of,
101

Constitution, writers of,
49–50

Contemplation of universe,
39

Criminal detection,
118

Danger from radioactivity,
107

Dan Smoot Report, The,
100

Danz lectures,
vii
,
61
,
97–98

Democracy, confusion of,
49

Deserts

buying land in,
95–96

and water,
96

Detection, criminal,
118

Discipline, requirement of, in

scientific reasoning,
18

Discovering new things,
98

Doubt

freedom to,
28

its value in sciences,
28

learning to,
37

scientists dealing with,
26–27

turned on ethical problems,
40

Dream of finding open channel,
33

Education,
31

Electricity,
13–15

Encyclical of Pope John XXIII,
122

Energy, free,
120

Ethical and moral views,
41

Ethical aspects of religion,
41–2

Ethical judgments,
120–21

Ethical problems, doubts turned on,
40

Ethical values,
43

Ethics, Christian,
44
,
47–48

Exception tests the rule,
15–16

Experience, religious,
39–40

Extrapolations,
25

Facts learned in science,
38–39

Faith

certainty in,
43

healers,
93–94

people believing in,
33–34

Faraday, Michael,
13–14

Farm problem,
65–66

Federal Pure Food and Drug Act,
97

Financial arrangements, international,
118

Flying saucers,
75–76

Freedom to doubt,
28

Free energy,
120

Free ideas and Poland,
52–53

Fusion, controlled,
120

Future

looking to,
119–20

new,
122

Galileo,
121

Germany, fear of resurgence of,
52

God

belief in,
36–37

definition of,
35

existence of,
37–38

moral values are word of,
42

questioning existence of,
46–47

Golden Rule,
44

Govern, inventing a system to,
49

Government, limited,
57

Government power, limit to,
50

Healers, faith,
93–94

Health products,
97

Heaven, science is key to gates of,
6–7

Heritages, two,
47

Heroic age,
62–63

Homoiousions,
122

Homoousians,
122

Honesty

abject,
106

lack of,
106
,
109–10

Hooke, Robert,
121

Human beings; See also
People

imagination of brains,
22

physiology of,
12–13

potentialities of,
31

proteins of,
11–12

relationships among,
22

Huxley, Aldous,
120

Hypnotism,
74–75

Ideas

development of,
55

free,
52–53

having permanence or constancy,
75

impact of,
3–4

judging,
64

new,
27
,
114

old,
3–4

truth of,
21

Ignorance, admission of,
34

Imagination,
10

of human brain,
22

of nature,
10

in science,
22–23

Independence between ethical and moral views,
41

Indians, Navajo,
86–87

Information, lack of,
98

Inheritance, psychoplasmic,
53

Inspiration,
42
,
46–47

Intelligence of average television looker,
87–88

Intelligent questions, asking,
65

International financial arrangements,
118

Inventions, nontechnological,
118–19

Jesus,
121–22

John Birch Society,
100

John XXIII, Pope,
122

Judgments

ethical,
120–21

ultimate,
45–46

Khrushchev, Nikita Sergeyevich,
55

Knowing, living without,
27–28

Knowledge

admitting lack of,
33

believers and nonbelievers,
92–93

is dangerous,
36

Labels and health products,
97

Land

buying in deserts,
95–96

and water,
96

Laws, old,
24

Life

internal machinery of,
11

meaning of,
32–33

Living without

knowing,
27–28

Lysenko, Trofim

Denisovich,
53–54

Mariner II voyage to Venus,
109–12

Matter, atoms of,
14

Mental telepathy,
71–74

Metaphysical aspects of religion,
41–42

Middle Ages,
21
,
115

Mind readers,
69–70

Mind reading, analyzable,
71

M.I.T., fraternity at,
82

Modern art,
55

Moon, propaganda and going to,
113

Moral values,
120–21

outside scientific realm,
43–45

as word of God,
42

Moral views,
41

uncertainty of,
48

unchanged,
42–43

Motion, as not affecting weight,
24

Nakhrosov,
55–56
,
120

Nations, conflict between,
48

Nature

imagination of,
10

rules that describe,
24

understanding workings of,
15

Navajo Indians,
86–87

New ideas,
27

Newspaper reporters,
88–89

Newton, Sir Isaac,
121

Nontechnological inventions,
118–19

Nuclear testing,
106–7

Objectivity of science,
18–19

Observations,
15

game of making,
18

improving effectiveness of,
71

as judge of truth of ideas,
21

limitations of,
16

rough,
17

in Middle Ages,
21

Occurrences, one or two as proof,
83–84

Open channel, maintaining,
57

Origins of universe,
12

Padgovney,
55–56

Paralysis

of everything,
103

principle of,
102–3

using method of,
105

Paranoia,
103–4

People; See also
Human beings

as not honest,
106

ordinary,
76
,
85–86

Polish,
51

radio religion,
94–95

Phenomena,
106

Bible predicting,
94–95

Philosophers,
20

Philosophy of science,
18

Physics

freedom for,
54

two schools of,
54

Physiology of human beings,
12–13

Point Four program,
7–8

Poland and free ideas,
52–53

Polish people,
51

Politics

disparaging of,
66

unscientific role of,
97–98

Potentialities of human beings,
31

Power

to do things,
5–6

limit to government,
50

Prayers, individual,
40

Precision of statements,
25

Prediction,
23

Probability,
80–81