The thing with feathers
- Kind
- Blog
- Date
- May 2009
- Publisher
- Science Musings Blog
- Retrieved
- Jan 5, 2012
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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…