- Preface
- I. Science History
- 1. The Uses of Astronomy
- 2. The Art of Discovery
- 3. From Rutherford to the LHC
- 4. Educators and Academics, Underground in Texas
- 5. The Rise of the Standard Models
- 6. Long Times and Short Times
- 7. Keeping an Eye on the Present—Whig History of Science
- 8. The Whig History of Science: An Exchange
- II. Physics and Cosmology
- 9. What Is an Elementary Particle?
- 10. The Universe We Still Don’t Know
- 11. Varieties of Symmetry
- 12. The Higgs, and Beyond
- 13. Why the Higgs?
- 14. The Trouble with Quantum Mechanics
- III. Public Matters
- 15. Obama Gets Space Funding Right
- 16. The Crisis of Big Science
- 17. Liberal Disappointment
- 18. Keep Loopholes Open
- 19. Against Manned Space Flight
- 20. Skeptics and Scientists
- IV. Personal Matters
- 21. Change Course
- 22. Writing about Science
- 23. On Being Wrong
- 24. The Craft of Science, and the Craft of Art
- 25. New York to Austin, and Return
- Sources
- Index
Third Thoughts
Product Details
HARDCOVER
$25.95 • £22.95 • €23.95
ISBN 9780674975323
Publication Date: 08/06/2018
Awards & Accolades
- Steven Weinberg Is Winner of the 1979 Nobel Prize in Physics
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