DREAMS OF EARTH AND SKY

In this sequel to The Scientist as Rebel (2006), Freeman Dyson-whom The Times of
London calls "one of the world's most original minds"-celebrates openness to un
conventional ideas and "the spirit of joyful dreaming" in which he believes that
science should be pursued. Throughout these essays, which range from the creati
on of the Royal Society in the seventeenth century to the scientific inquiries o
f the Romantic generation to recent books by Daniel Kahneman and Malcolm Gladwel
l, he seeks to "break down the barriers that separate science from other sources
of human wisdom."