Electronic/World Wide Web>Blog: Raymo , Chet (May 2009), The thing with feathers, Science Musings Blog, Retrieved on 2012-01-05Source Material [blog.sciencemusings.com]
Folksonomies: two cultures Memes
05 JAN 2012
Pessimism VS Optimism in Science
By and large, literary intellectuals tend to be a gloomy lot, with little but scorn for science and technology as engines of human happiness. By contrast, science is impossible without hope; it is inherently forward-looking. As Ian McEwan says: "You can't be curious and depressed."
So the two cultures are not based so much on the academic disciplines themselves as on basic temperaments, says Ferry. One is either an optimist or a pessimist about the direction of human civilization; science an...Hope is a virtue, you have to work at it. We are split between optimists and pessimists.
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Electronic/World Wide Web>Blog: Raymo , Chet (2004 - 2011), Science Musings Blog, Retrieved on 2011-11-24Source Material [blog.sciencemusings.com]
Folksonomies: science spirituality