Joseph Needham’s Science, Religion and Reality (1925) was a remarkable contribution to the conversation between science and religion, but it has since faded into obscurity.
In this piece for CPOSAT, Samuel McKee explores what the book contains and why it still matters today.
Joseph Needham’s Science, Religion and Reality, published in 1925, was an extraordinary contribution to the science and religion dialogue. Coming during the interwar physics revolution, it is a forgotten and underappreciated collection from Cambridge that helped trigger several important pieces that shaped the discussion at an academic and popular level. The collection brought together an accomplished group of religious scientists, predominantly connected with Cambridge University, that held different perspectives on how science and religion interacted but agreed on their ability to relate.
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