诺贝尔桂冠物学家薛定谔是20世纪最著名的科学家之一，他关于科学史和科学哲学的演讲久负盛名。

本书是多年来第一次呈现薛定谔的两个最有名的系列演讲文本。

《自然与希腊》从现代科学追溯到古老的西方哲学思想，为20世纪科学图景打开了历史的画卷。

《科学与人文》提出了20世纪的若干最基本问题：科学研究的价值何在?现代科学成就如何影响物质与精神的关系?

彭罗斯的前言将薛定谔的演讲置于当代科学的背景下，证明它们在今天和在第一次出版时有着同样的意义。

Foreword by Roger Penrose 引言

NATURE AND THE GREEKS 自然与希腊

Ⅰ The motives for returning to ancient thought

Ⅱ The competition, reason v. senses

Ⅲ The Pythagoreans

Ⅳ The Ionian Enlightenment

Ⅴ The religion of Xenophanes.Heraclitus of Ephesus

Ⅵ The Atomists

Ⅶ What are the special features?

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SCIENCE AND HUMANISM 科学与人文

Preface

The spiritual bearing of science on life

The practical achievements of science tending to obliterate its true import

A radical change in our ideas of matter

Form, not substance, the fundamental concept

The nature of our'models'

Continuous description and causality

The intricacy of the continuum

The makeshift of wave mechanics

The alleged break-down of the barrier between subject and object

Atoms or quanta-the counter-spell of old standing, to escape the intricacy of the continuum

Would physical indeterminacy give free will a chance?

The bar to prediction, according to Niels Bohr

Literature

后记：哲学是科学的后花园