Science as Culture and the Science of Meaning | The Marginalia Review of Books
The sciences and the arts/humanities often look like rivals who want to get along but just keep rubbing each other up the wrong way.| The Marginalia Review of Books
The sciences and the arts/humanities often look like rivals who want to get along but just keep rubbing each other up the wrong way.| The Marginalia Review of Books
Unity’s appeal seems ancient and abiding. But is it universal? Science historian George Sarton once suggested that there are two kinds of people: those who “suffer a tormenting desire for unity” and those afflicted with no such longing.| The Marginalia Review of Books
Follow the science. But which science, whose science, today’s science or tomorrow’s? The SARS-COV-2 pandemic turned virologists and epidemiologists into unwilling oracles, pressed by politicians, press, and public alike to provide stable guidance in unstable times. How did the virus spread, did masks work, were children at risk, was it safe to hug, did taking ibuprofen make symptoms better or worse, how many people would die, when would it all end?| The Marginalia Review of Books
In the lecture series given in Cambridge in 1951 that formed the basis of his book Science & Humanism, the physicist Erwin Schrödinger observed...| The Marginalia Review of Books
