The Scientist as Rebel (New York Review Books Collection) by Freeman Dyson Reviewed by Gregory M. Lamb
Christian Science Monitor
"Throughout history scientists from Galileo to Andrei Sakharov have been persecuted for challenging the orthodoxy of their societies. But in The Scientist as Rebel, Freeman Dyson advocates rebellion of a broader kind. Science, the theoretical physicist writes, should rebel 'against poverty and ugliness and militarism and economic injustice.' Benjamin Franklin is Dyson's ideal of the scientific rebel, one who embodied 'thoughtful rebellion, driven by reason and calculation more than by passion and hatred.' If science ever stops rebelling against authority, Dyson insists, it won't deserve to be pursued by our brightest children...." Read the entire Christian Science Monitor review.