“Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete; and that there are no new worlds to conquer” – Humphry Davy (1810) Lecture cited in The Age of Wonder by Richard Holmes … Continue reading
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“After the war, when my parents became farm workers in southern Ontario, I fell in love with insects, particularly beetles, and spent countless hours wading through my magical swamp. When I became a geneticist, it was to study heredity in an insect, the fruit fly. Astronomer Carl Sagan told me that as a child he … Continue reading
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Every theoretical and scientific practice grows out of and remains supported by the forgotten ground of our directly felt experience, and has value and meaning only in reference to this primordial and open realm -David Abram from Spell of the Sensuous Continue reading
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“[Science] sometimes looks like a lonely activity, but it is as much the opposite of lonely as human behavior can be. There is nothing so social, so communal, so interdependent. An active field of science is alike an immense anthill; the individual almost vanishes into the mass of minds tumbling over each other, carrying information … Continue reading
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“Many scientists insist that the highest purpose of human knowledge is to provide the facts and nothing but the facts. But just what is scientific fact?…The composing of theories and formulae is a symbol-making activity. The results are not ultimate insights but assuring symbols of nature. The scientific world thus becomes a sphere of man-made … Continue reading
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“In terms of initial intellectual experience, what the artist and scientist have in common is their desire to comprehend the external world, to reduce its apparent complexity, even chaos, to some kind of ordered representation. In a very real sense the first art in mankind’s history is also the first science” Robert Nisbet from Sociology … Continue reading
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. -Immanuel Kant Continue reading