Part I: Science for Man and Man for Science (Working Group)
Context, Essential Contents of, and Follow-up to, the World Conference on Science Held in Budapest in June 1999
Werner Arber
Technology: between Science and Man
Paul Germain
Spinning Fluids, Geomagnetism and the Earth’s Deep Interior
Raymond Hide
Mathematics: Recent Developments and cultural aspects
Yuri I. Manin
Science as Utopia
Jürgen Mittelstraß
From Modern Research in Astrophysics to the Next Millennium for Mankind
George V. Coyne, S.J.
The Role of Tropical Atmospheric Chemistry in Global Change Research: the Need for Research in the Tropics and Subtropics
Paul J. Crutzen
Which Economic System is Likely to Serve Human Societies the Best? The Scientific Question
Edmond Malinvaud
Sustainability: Prospects for a New Millennium
Peter H. Raven
Choice, Responsibility, and Problems of Population
Bernardo M. Colombo
The Search for Man
J. Marías
Science Facing the Crisis of Sense
F. Jacques
Society in the Face of Scientific and Technological Development: Risk, Decision, Responsibility
A. Blanc-Lapierre
Challenges for Agricultural Scientists
T.-T. Chang
The Mathematisation of Science
Luis A. Caffarelli
Part II: Science and the Future of Mankind (Jubilee Session)
Light and Matter
Claude Cohen-Tannoudji
The Relationship Between Science, Religion and Aristotelian Theology Today
Enrico Berti
Design Versus Selection in Chemistry and Beyond
Albert Eschenmoser
Chemical Design of New Materials
C.N.R. Rao
Developmental Biology: New Trends and Prospects
Nicole M. Le Douarin
Erreur, Correction, Réhabilitation et Pardon
Card. Georges Cottier, OP
Logic and Uncertainties in Science and Religion
Charles H. Townes
Natural Theology in the Light of Modern Cosmology and Biology
R. Swinburne
The Progress of Science and the Messianic Ideal
Jean-Michel Maldamé
Creation and Science
W.E. Carroll
The Transition from Biological to Cultural Evolution
Wolf J. Singer
Earth Sciences: Remarkable Scientific Progress
Frank Press
Global Change and the Antarctic Ozone Hole
Mario J. Molina
Science for Man and Man for Science: the View from the Third World
Marcos Moshinsky
Physics in the Last Century and in the Future
Rudolf L. Mössbauer
The Christological Origins of Newton’s First Law
Stanley L. Jaki
Colliding Cascades: a Model for Prediction of Critical Transitions
Vladimir I. Keilis-Borok
Time and Matter – Science at New Limits
Ahmed H. Zewail
The New World Dis-Order – Can Science Aid the Have-Nots?
Ahmed H. Zewail
Why and how Physicists are Interested in the Brain and the Mind
M. Oda
A Millennium View of the Universe
Vera C. Rubin
Recent Trends in the Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics
R. Omnès
Christ and Science
Cardinal Paul Poupard
On Transdisciplinarity
Jürgen Mittelstraß
‘Illicit Jumps’ – The Logic of Creation
Michael Heller
Proposed Declaration on Sciences and Scientists at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century
Paul Germain
Study-Document on the Use of ‘Genetically Modified Food Plants’ to Combat Hunger in the World with an Introductory Note
Nicola Cabibbo