{"id":995,"date":"2008-10-17T12:21:56","date_gmt":"2008-10-17T19:21:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2008\/10\/the-rigid-boundaries-that-divide-science\/"},"modified":"2008-10-17T12:21:56","modified_gmt":"2008-10-17T19:21:56","slug":"the-rigid-boundaries-that-divide-science","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/17\/the-rigid-boundaries-that-divide-science\/","title":{"rendered":"The Rigid Boundaries That Divide Science"},"content":{"rendered":"

from the UK Spectator<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Age Of Wonder<\/h1>\n

The romance of science<\/h2>\n

Richard Holmes
\nHarperPress, 380pp, \u00a325,<\/p>\n

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BEN WILSON<\/span><\/p>\n

WEDNESDAY, 15TH OCTOBER 2008<\/span><\/p>\n

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The Age of Wonder, by Richard Holmes<\/p>\n

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Just what some- one who studied science should be called was mooted at the 1833 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science. \u2018Formerly the \u201clearned\u201d embraced in their wide grasp all the branches of the tree of knowledge, mathematicians as well as philologers, physical as well as antiquarian speculators,\u2019 reported the geologist William Whewell. \u2018But these days are past.\u2019<\/p>\n

The meeting was chaired by Coleridge, who vetoed the use of \u2018philosopher\u2019; \u2018savants\u2019 was instantly rejected as too French. But \u2018some ingenious gentlemen\u2019 (including Whewell himself) proposed \u2018that, by analogy with \u201cartist\u201d, they might form \u201cscientist\u201d \u2019. Natural philosophers did not, with their new designation, become in the mind of the public another kind of artist, but a breed apart, divorced from the wider culture. This, according to Richard Holmes, is a tragedy. We should repudiate the rigid boundaries that divide science from literature, art, ethics and religion.<\/p>\n

We need a wider, more generous, more imaginative perspective. Above all \u2026 we need the three things that a scientific culture can sustain: the sense of individual wonder, the power of hope, and the vivid but questing belief in a future for the globe.<\/p>\n

[ click to continue reading at The Spectator<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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