[The] book makes a wonderfully cohesive whole. It is rich in ideas, elegantly expressed. I highly recommend it to any serious student of science and culture.
   --Lucy Horowitz, Boston Book Review

Using Albert Einstein as the embodiment of the creative force that connects science with society, Holton embraces the humanistic side of science and fights the contemporary backlash against it.
   --Science News

Holton has succeeded admirably.
   --New York Times Book Review

An important and lasting contribution to a more profound understanding of the place of science in our culture.
   --Hans C. von Baeyer, Boston Sunday Globe

Holton effectively outlines the terms of a debate that will determine much of our short-range future.
   --Kirkus

I know of no better informed scientist who has studied the nature of science for half a century.
   --Ron Good, Science and Education

Brilliantly informed, wonderfully written.
   --John Kenneth Galbraith

Gerald Holton is Mallinckrodt Research Professor of Physics, and Research Professor of History of Science, Harvard University.

Read More by Gerald Holton:

• The Scientific Imagination, With a New Introduction
• The Advancement of Science, and Its Burdens
• Thematic Origins of Scientific Thought: Kepler to Einstein, Second Edition
• Science and Anti-Science
• Victory and Vexation in Science: Einstein, Bohr, Heisenberg, and Others