Man in Search of Himself

Man it will be objected is a living being and therefore belongs in the first place to the domain of the biologist; but he is also a thinking being and therefore belongs to the psychologist; in his evolutionary setting he is the concern of the palaeontologist; but he is also a being capable of philosophizing capable of artistic and religious feelings and so comes within the province of the philosopher the artist and the theologian. But what on earth is a physicist doing in this company? What does he know about man since man is not his special field of research? If I must make my apologies for daring to come out of the cave in which I seemed to be confined - my professional pigeon-hole so to speak - I am more than willing to do so. This book I admit is the exact opposite of a specialist work. I admit moreover - even if I am to be condemned on this count - that I am particularly glad my work is not like that of a specialist. Jean Emile Charon was a French nuclear physicist author of over 20 books on physics scientific philosophy and computer science.