Something radically new is in the air: new ways of understanding physical systems, new ways of thinking about thinking that call into question many of our basic assumptions. A realistic biology of the mind, advances in physics, electricity, genetics, neurobiology, engineering, the chemistry of materials -- all are challenging basic assumptions of who and what we are, of what it means to be human. The arts and the sciences are again joining together as one culture, the third culture. Those involved in this effort -- scientists, science-based humanities scholars, writers -- are at the center of today's intellectual action.

They are the new humanists.

To mark the occasion of the 100th edition of Edge, I am taking my turn. ...

A Great Intellectual Hunger
One Intellectual Whole
Cultural Pessimism
The Double Optimism of Science
Scientists As Both Creators and Critics
The Horizon Grows
Scientia
One Culture, the Third Culture

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