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
Atomic bomb, testing, 108
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
farm, 65–66
grappling with, 56–57
what is probable, 77
Products, health, 97
Programs
Point Four, 7–8
Ranger, 112–13
Promises, campaign, 66
Propaganda and going to moon, 113
Proportion, sense of, 105
Proteins
of bacteria, 11–12
of humans, 11–12
Protocol of the Elders of Zion, 106
Psychoplasmic
inheritance, 53
Questions, asking intelligent, 65
Radioactivity
danger from, 107
protection from effects of, 108–9
unsafe level of, 107–8
Radio religion people, 94–95
Ranger program, 112–13
Read, ability to, 116
Real estate in California, 96
Reasoning
and positive inventions, 18
scientific, 18
Relations among scientists, 21–22
Relationships, human, 22
Religion
as answering all kinds of questions, 41
ethical aspect of, 41
and inspiration, 47
inspirational aspects of, 41–42
metaphysical aspects of, 41–42
radio people, 94–95
Religious beliefs, 43
Religious experiences, 39–40
Reporters, newspaper, 88–89
Resurgence of
Germany, fear of, 52
Rules
to be checked, 23
and consistency of science, 23
exception tests, 15–16
powerfulness of, 20
specificity of, 19
testing of, 19
that describe nature, 24
Russia
backward country, 50
and biology, 53–54
development of ideas, 55
and modern art, 55
not free, 53
Science
Arabian scholars of, 115
contents of, 9
development speed of, 62
doubt as value in, 28
facts learned in, 38–39
imagination in, 22–23
key to gates of heaven, 6–7
limitation of, 63
meaning of, 4–5
as method, 15
as misunderstood, 36–37
objectivity of, 18–19
philosophy of, 18
practical aspects of, 9
and religion
conflict between, 35
relation of, 34–35
rules and consistency of, 23
and society relationships, 7
and technology, 50
three aspects of, 4–5
uncertainty of, 1–28
value of, 6
Scientific realm, moral values as outside, 43–45
Scientific reasoning, 18
Scientists
as atheists, 36
dealing with doubt and uncertainty, 26–27
relations among, 21–22
Seaton, Mother, 77–79
Society and science, relations between, 7
Speech, parts of, 115–16
Spinning of tops, 24–26
S.P.X. Research Associates, 102, 105
Statistical sampling, 84, 89–91
Stupidity, phenomena result of a general, 95
Systems, traffic, 118
Technology
applications of, 62
and science, 50
Telekinesis, 68
Telepathy, mental, 71–74
Television
advertising in, 85
looker, intelligence of average, 87–88
Testing, nuclear, 106–7
Theories, allowing for alternative, 69
Thoroughness, concept of, 17
Tops, spinning, 24–26
Traffic systems, 118
Troubles and lack of information, 91
Truth
of ideas, 21
writing, 56
admission of, 34
relative certainties out of, 98
remaining, 70–71
of science, 1–28
scientists dealing with, 26–27
of values, 29–57
Uncertainty, 67–68
Universe
contemplation of, 39
origins of, 12
Unscientific age, 59–122
Values
ethical, 43
moral, 120–21
uncertainty of, 29–57
Venus
flying saucers from, 75
Mariner II voyage to, 109–12
Vocabulary, 116
War, dislike of, 32
Water, and deserts, 96
Weight, as not affected by motion, 24
Western civilization, 47
Witch doctors, 114
Words, as meaningless, 20
Writing truth, 56