這是一本富有啟迪意義的對話錄，具有漫談式的風格和科學、人文一體性的特點。在科學方面，既談到了科學的研究方法，也談到了宇宙科學、生物化學和醫學等。在人文方面，涉及了科學家的責任、冷戰、裁軍、世界新秩序等話題。雖然題材廣泛，但是並非泛泛而談，在每一個論點上，兩人都有精彩的論述。
以現代化學之父聞名於世的保林博士，在對話中回憶了自己的成長經歷，讓我們看到他怎樣在困境中搏鬥，怎樣以不窮的好奇心和充沛的精力推動各方面的科學研究，從而取得卓越的成就。同時，難能可貴的是保林博士作為一個科學家身上的強烈的社會責任感。經歷了兩次世界大戰，看到戰爭和核武器對人類的毀滅性殺傷後，保林博士不遺餘力地呼籲和平，反對使用軍事力量，強調科學家應該承擔更多的社會責任，不應該為了研究而將世界推向毀滅，推向“死亡本身的死亡”的境地。他還回憶了與愛因斯坦、羅素等人的交往，讓我們得以重溫這些偉人的生活歲月。而池田大作先生不僅回憶了自己的童年，更廣泛地闡釋了自己對安樂死、科學、裁軍、世界和平等問題的看法，表現了他堅定的信仰和強大的人格魅力。
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在此書第2章，達爾文和 Linus Pauling是天才，可是下半生苦悶，了了......
重啟人生：一個哈佛教授的生命領悟，給你把餘生過好的簡單建議
From Strength to Strength: Finding Success, Happiness, and Deep Purpose in the Second Half of Life
In the science establishment, Dr. Commoner’s standing was ambiguous. Along with eminent figures of the postwar years like the chemist Linus Pauling and the anthropologist Margaret Mead, he was concerned that the integrity of American science had been compromised — first by the government’s emphasis on supporting physics at the expense of other fields during the development of nuclear weapons, and second by the growing privatization of research, in which pure science took a back seat to projects that held short-range promise of marketable technologies.
“At about that time,” he continued, “several of us met with Linus Pauling in St. Louis and together drafted the petition, eventually signed by thousands of scientists worldwide.” The petition was part of the scientific underpinning for President John F. Kennedy’s proposal of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963 — “the first of continuing international actions to fully cage the nuclear beast,” Dr. Commoner said.
Linus Pauling (1901-1994) 他寫的《大學化學》，台灣有翻譯。
他主張大量服用高單位的維他命C治感冒等，有信徒
(比較2020.8.20：Honey may be a better treatment for coughs and colds than over-the-counter medicines, a new study has found )
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