Preface to this site

The essays in this site are selected by the manager of the CFRL website to help young and young-in-spirit scientists to realize what is science.

Our culture in the 21^st century stands on the brink of the precipice due to the destruction of its basis – the global environment. We have to realize now that the saying “Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature; but he is a thinking reed.” (Pascal, Pansées, 347) expresses a superficial character of human beings and that their fundamental character is tough enough to be going to destroy whole world.

We have to seek now a culture including science consistent with environment. The essays collected below will serve readers very much to do so.

Essays in Science in English

1.　Deceit in History

W. Broad and N. Wade, Betrayers of the Truth ― Fraud and Deceit in the halls of Science ―

2. The Common Sense of Science

J. Bronowski, The Common Sense of Science

3. Progress in Science and Religion

F. Dyson, A Talk at Templeton Prize Ceremony (2000)

4. The Fundaments of Theoretical Physics

A. Einstein, Ideas and Opinions

5. Distinction between Observational Terms and Theoretical Terms

P. Feyerabend, Against Method

6. Martin Fleischmann obituary

Brian D. Josephson, guardian.co.uk, Friday 31 August 2012 19.33 BST

7. Paul Ehrenfest – The Making of a Theoretical Physicist,

(on Bohr’s Model of Atoms excerpt from pp. 276 – 279)

M.J. Klein, North Holland, 1970

8. Theory, Model and Hypothesis

H. Kozima, Based on The Science of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon, Appendix B.

9. The Cold Fusion Phenomenon as a Typical Complexity in Hydrated Solids

H. Kozima, The Science of the Cold Fusion Phenomenon, Epilogue

10. Hypothesis in Physics

E. Poincare, Science and Hypothesis

11. A New Rationality?

I. Prigogine, The End of Certainty

12. Physics, Community and the Crisis in Physical Theory

S.S. Schweber, Physics Today, November 1993, pp. 34-40.

13. The “Method” of the Science Method

C.J. Sindermann, The Joy of Science