1. This essay, which appeared in The New York Review of Books, May 25, 1995, was originally a lecture given at a conference in Cambridge, England, in November 1992. It was published in the proceedings of the conference, Nature’s Imagination: The Frontiers of Scientific Vision, edited by John Cornwell (Oxford University Press, 1995).
2. This essay, which appeared in The New York Review of Books, April 10, 1997, is an abbreviated version of a lecture given at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem in May 1995. The lecture was published as Chapter 5 in Freeman Dyson, Imagined Worlds (Harvard University Press, 1997).
3. Foreword to Thomas Gold, The Deep Hot Biosphere (Springer-Verlag, 1999).
4. Review of Michael Crichton, Prey (HarperCollins, 2002), in The New York Review of Books, February 13, 2003.
5. Review of Vaclav Smil, The Earth’s Biosphere: Evolution, Dynamics, and Change (MIT Press, 2002), in The New York Review of Books, May 15, 2003.
6. Review of Thomas Levenson, Einstein in Berlin (Random House, 2003), in Nature, April 24, 2003.
7. Review of Tom Stonier, Nuclear Disaster (Meridian Books, 1963), published in Disarmament and Arms Control (1964), pp. 459–461.
8. “Generals,” from Chapter 13 in Freeman Dyson, Weapons and Hope (Harper and Row, 1984).
9. “Russians,” from Chapter 15 in Dyson, Weapons and Hope.
10. “Pacifists,” from Chapter 16 in Dyson, Weapons and Hope.
11. This essay, which appeared in The New York Review of Books, March 6, 1997, is another piece of the same lecture from which Chapter 2 was taken, also published in Chapter 5 of Dyson, Imagined Worlds.
12. Preface to Ending War: The Force of Reason: Essays in Honor of Joseph Rotblat, edited by Maxwell Bruce and Tom Milne (Palgrave Macmillan, 1999). Reproduced with permission of Palgrave Macmillan.
13. Review of Max Hastings, Armageddon: The Battle for Germany, 1944–1945 (Knopf, 2004); and Hans Erich Nossack, The End: Hamburg, 1943, translated from the German and with a foreword by Joel Agee and with photographs by Erich Andres (University of Chicago Press, 2004), in The New York Review of Books, April 28, 2005.
14. Review of Yuri Manin, Mathematics and Physics, translated from the Russian by Ann and Neil Koblitz (Birkhäuser, 1981); and Paul Forman, Weimar Culture, Causality, and Quantum Theory, 1918–1927: Adaptation by German Physicists and Mathematicians to a Hostile Intellectual Environment, Vol. 3 of Historical Studies in the Physical Sciences (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1971), published in Mathematical Intelligencer, Vol. 5 (1983), pp. 54–57.
15. Review of Edward Teller with Judith Shoolery, Memoirs: A Twentieth-Century Journey in Science and Politics (Perseus, 2001), published in American Journal of Physics, Vol. 70 (2002), pp. 462–463.
16. Review of Timothy Ferris, Seeing in the Dark: How Backyard Stargazers Are Probing Deep Space and Guarding Earth from Interplanetary Peril (Simon and Schuster, 2002), in The New York Review of Books, December 5, 2002.
17. Review of James Gleick, Isaac Newton (Pantheon, 2003), in The New York Review of Books, July 3, 2003.
18. Review of Peter Galison, Einstein’s Clocks, Poincaré’s Maps: Empires of Time (Norton, 2003), in The New York Review of Books, November 6, 2003.
19. Review of Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality (Knopf, 2004), in The New York Review of Books, May 13, 2004.
20. This chapter is the text of a talk given at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton on October 27, 2004, to celebrate Oppenheimer’s hundredth birthday. The extract from Lansing Hammond’s letter of 1979 was previously published in a preface that I wrote for Atom and Void, a collection of Oppenheimer’s public lectures (Princeton University Press, 1989). Other parts of the chapter are borrowed from Chapter 11, “Scientists and Poets,” of my book Weapons and Hope.
21. Review of Brian Cathcart, The Fly in the Cathedral: How a Group of Cambridge Scientists Won the International Race to Split the Atom (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2004); and Alan Lightman, A Sense of the Mysterious (Pantheon, 2005), in The New York Review of Books, February 24, 2005.
22. Review of Flo Conway and Jim Siegelman, Dark Hero of the Information Age: In Search of Norbert Wiener, the Father of Cybernetics (Basic Books, 2005), in The New York Review of Books, July 14, 2005.
23. Review of Richard Feynman, Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman, edited and with an introduction by Michelle Feynman (Basic Books, 2005), in The New York Review of Books, October 20, 2005.
24. Bernal Lecture given at Birkbeck College, London, May 1972, published as Appendix D, pp. 371–389, to Communication with Extraterrestrial Intelligence, edited by Carl Sagan (MIT Press, 1973).
25. Review of Richard Feynman, The Meaning of it All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist (Addison-Wesley, 1998); and John Polkinghorne, Belief in God in an Age of Science (Yale University Press, 1998), in The New York Review of Books, May 28, 1998.
26. Foreword to The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard Feynman, edited by Jeffrey Robbins (Perseus, 1999). Copyright © 1999 by Michelle Feynman and Carl Feynman. Reprinted by permission of Basic Books, a member of Perseus Books, LLC.
27. Review of Georges Charpak and Henri Broch, Debunked! ESP, Telekinesis, and Other Pseudoscience, translated from the French by Bart K. Holland (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004), in The New York Review of Books, March 24, 2004.
28. Preface to Olaf Stapledon, Star Maker, edited and with an introduction by Pat McCarthy (Wesleyan University Press, 2004).
29. Review of Daniel C. Dennett, Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon (Viking Penguin, 2006) in The New York Review of Books, June 22, 2006.