author : Freeman J. Dyson

autobiography

Includes the essay How Will It All End?, about the fate of life in an open expanding universe: things get ever colder and more diffuse, but life can go on forever, although at a slower and slower rate, and moreover needs only a finite, and amazingly modest, amount of energy to do so.

Contents

• Sir Phillip Roberts's Erolunar Collision. 1933

• On Being the Right Size: Reflections on the Ecology of Scientific Projects. 1988

• Six Cautionary Tales for Scientists. 1988

• Telescopes and Accelerators. 1988

• Sixty Years of Space Science, 1958--2018. 1988

• The Importance of Being Unpredictable. 1990

• Strategic Bombing in World War 2 and Today: Has Anything Changed?. 1990

• Field Theory. 1953

• Innovation in Physics. 1958

• Tomonaga, Schwinger, and Feynman Awarded Nobel Prize for Physics. 1965

• Energy in the Universe. 1971

• Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere and the Biosphere. 1990

p132. on the accuracy of certain values of annual flow in the carbon budget:
A---Well measured (error ± 20 percent)
B---Roughly known (error ± factor of 2)
C---Highly uncertain (sign may be wrong)

• The Future of Physics. 1970

• Unfashionable Pursuits. 1981

• Astronomy in a Private Sphere. 1984

• To Teach or Not to Teach. 1990

• Pugwash 1962. 1962

• Death of a Project. 1965

• Human Consequences of the Exploration of Space. 1968

• The Hidden Costs of Saying No. 1974

• Pupin. 1960

• Oppenheimer. 1980

• Heims. 1980

• Manin and Forman. 1982

• Kennan. 1982

• Oppenheimer Again. 1989

• Morson and Tolstoy. 1989

• Letter from Armenia. 1971

• Brittle Silence. 1981

• Helen Dukas. 1982

• Paul Dirac. 1986

• Beacons. 1988

• Kennan Again. 1988

• Feynman in 1948. 1989

• The Face of Gaia. 1989

(1st edition published 1985)