Bioethics, the science of survival -- Teilhard de Chardin and the concept of purpose -- Bridge to the future: the concept of human progress -- Society and science -- Dangerous knowledge: the dilemma of modern science -- Council on the future -- The role of disorder in human activity and thought -- The role of the individual in modern society -- Intracellular responses to environmental change: The quest for optimum environment -- How is an optimum environment defined? -- Science and biological man -- Biocybernetics--the key to environmental science -- Survival as a goal for wisdom