Historically-minded person that I am, when I initially heard that MIT Press was publishing a new book titled The Scientific Attitude, I naturally made the assumption that they were bringing out a new edition of C.W. Waddington’s classic 1941 work of that name, originally published as part of the brilliant Pelican series of paperbacks that provided generations of impecunious university students and any interested others with the opportunity to discover and read the works of many of the world’s great (then) contemporary thinkers.