Voices In the Labyrinth: Nature, Man, and Science
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1977
- Publisher
- Harper San Francisco
- Retrieved
- Jan 31, 2012
- ISBN
- kpw1AAAAIA
2 memes from this reference
Scientists Must Learn to Forget Facts
Like all things of the mind, science is a brittle thing: it becomes absurd when you look at it too closely. It is designed for few at a time, not as a mass profession. But now we have megascience: an immense apparatus discharging in a minute more bursts of knowledge than humanity is able to assimilate in a lifetime…
We Know Too Much About the Wrong Things
In science, attempts at formulating hierarchies are always doomed to eventual failure. A Newton will always be followed by an Einstein, a Stahl by a Lavoisier; and who can say who will come after us? What the human mind has fabricated must be subject to all the changes—which are not progress—that the human mind must…