The need for scientific literacy
The origins of accomplishing tasks : from individual to organized efforts
The earliest comprehensive and rationalistic syntheses
4- knowing, doing and the inevitability of curiosity and exploration
From the transcendent to the temporal-a transformative experience
From qualities to quantities : the mathematization of nature
Internalizing naturalistic explanations, benefit or threat?
Dispensing with philosophy and entertaining limits to human knowledge
Scientifically speaking, we know a lot, or do we?
The need for a context
The rightful place of science in society
Concluding reflections.