目录 1
1．A Road Watered with Tears And Blood 1
2．Making Friends with Children 5
3．The First Space Travelers 9
4．A Letter to Marie Sklodovska 13
5．The Climate of the United States 17
6．A Page of Diary 21
7．The Congress of the United States 26
8．The Boys and the Frogs 30
9．Farm Life in the United States 34
10．Papa Is Well 38
11．How Wolves Teach Their Cubs 42
12．What Causes Waves？ 47
13．Good Wishes 51
14．Something about Air 55
15．You Have No Right to Abandon Science 59
16．Lincoln and the Civil War 63
17．The Hose 67
18．What Happened at the Subway Entrance 71
19．The Life of Hares 75
20．Speed of Reading 79
21．Churchill’s Tears 83
22．A Short Note 87
23．Two Ways of Dealing with the Same Problem 91
24．Not Worth over 500 Francs 96
25．My First Appearance on the Stage 101
26．To Use TV Wisely 106
27．Never to Offend Your Mother 110
28．A Tramp Met a Tramp 116
29．Electronic Devices Work Wonders 121
30．I Swallowed A Half-penny 126
31．But Youth Conquered 130
32．The Most Eloquent Face 134
33．The Invention of the Car 138
34．Not Giants but Windmills 142
35．Sufferings at School 146
36．Is It Possible to Ban Smoking？ 150
37．The Man Who Discovered the Writer in Gorky 154
38．Population Explosion 160
39．No Desire for Fame 165
40．Everything Will Turn Out Okay 170
41．Impact on the Audience 174
42．Trees and Surroundings 178
43．How Strange It All Is！ 184
44．At the Hospital 188
45．The Student’s Mind 192
46．The First Man Who Supplied Gorky with Books 195
47．Questions That Physics Enables Us to Answer 200
48．A Holiday 204
49．After Levinson Finished His Work 209
50．A Great Oath 215
51．A Letter of Anton Tchekhov 219
52．Physics—An Unfinished Structure 223
53．The Sea People 228
54．A Man with a Constitution of Iron 232
55．We Shall Rebuild the World 237
56．The Old Man And the Boy 241
57．Preface to a Delicious Book 247
58．Both Number One 251
59．Paine Visited Franklin 255
60．Natalya—A Portrait of A Girl 259
61．Would the Strain Ever Cease？ 263
62．President Roosevelt Enjoyed My Performance 267
63．Strange Twins 272
64．The Track Watchman’s Wife 276
65．Science—Fiction or Fact 282
66．No Tears Came 287
67．Anna’s Little Black Dog 292
68．The Hands of Mother 297
69．Not As A Fugitive 301
70．Instincts in Her Nature 306
71．The Most Important Day in My Life 311
72．‘That Warms Me！’ 315
73．Jack Came to Love Her 321
74．A Terrible Dog Fight 325
75．The Mystery of Language 330
76．In the Glow of Sunset 334
77．Alienation from Family 338
78．Books Made of Clay 343
79．Night 349
80．A Peer or a Husband 353