Essays and Articles Worth Reading

• Why Read the Classics? Italo Calvino (translated by Martin McLaughlin), 1991.
• Newton's Flaming Laser Sword, Mike Alder, Philosophy Now. 46: 29–33 (2004).
• Wide hats and narrow minds, Stephen Jay Gould (New Scientist 8 March 1979, p. 777. Reprinted in The Panda's Thumb, p. 145)
• The man who invented black holes, Gary Gibbons (New Scientist, 26 June 1979).
• The Pursuit of Science: Its Motivations, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar, Truth and Beauty: Aesthetics and Motivations in Science (1987).