The Common Sense of Science by J. Bronowski

J. Bronowski is an English Mathematician

Who is the author of a well-known study of the poet William Blake, and a lecturer for the British Broadcasting Company.

He looks back with regret at the first great age of science, when Isaac Newton, Christopher Wren, and John Dryden were all active and enthusiastic members of the first scientific society; and despite the enormous changes which have occurred in science since then, he is convinced that science remains still a human enterprise, both in its aims and techniques, closer to the world of arts and letters than most scientists or artists realize.

In this book he develops this point of view, analyzing with subtlety and clarity such central concepts of science as order, cause, chance, model, prediction, and law, and showing that science, and particularly modern science, works very much the way any human activity, to be successful, must work: with techniques limited by our humanness, for ends determined by our humanness.

The Common Sense of Science
by J. Bronowski
394-70168-2