He loves amateurs , they do things out of love. One who is dedicated just does something very well. Even though they are synonyms there is a difference.
- enjoyed a lot of different activities , learned languages, wrote a lot and tried to oscillate at the edge of both cultures as described by Lord Snow in his book - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Two_Cultures,
He did not think of the book as clever as it is not true, there is actually only one culture that has split because of professionalism
-when the term professionals started , it was laughable .
We are living in times of professionalism - it causes people not to be able to communicate as they talk about different specialists with their own jargon, shortcuts.
We know just talk to each other eg .Is a fan of French literature and would like to discussed with a French professor literature who would just tell him things that he has absolute no interest in, and cannot even make clear to the professor what he liked about a book
- but In Natural Science , the professional idiot is more dangerous than in literature"
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What is happening now in natural sciences has little to do with nature, to a naturalist from 17th- 18th. century would appear as stupidity eg . we have limited ourself with the invisible organism, hardly anyone works anymore with anything zoological . Botany is not botany anymore, same with zoology, bacteriology is not bacteriology anymore but mainly interested in things that even with all our technology can hardly see, eg the smallest ‘ viruses, archaebacteria ,the paleo bacteria ie reduced to molecular biology.
Molecular biology concerns itself with molecules that no-one can see. it is not normal. It is pressure to produce more and more targets, huge investments.
More people are entering science so people cannot be made unemployed. They are required to come up with something to keep the funding and staff, a breakthrough that the colleagues are envious.
-It is is a never ending spiral,
eg if want to draw a perfect circle the start ends with the beginning. What we are doing is like trying to draw an imperfect circle that ends with a spiral that goes on forever. This can go on for thousands of years.
- Everything has eventually come to an end in history, and not overnight. The fall of roman empire took hundreds of years,
But everything will come to an end , even the science we know, it will not be the permanent preoccupation of humans."
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We have dedicated ourselves to this positivism , materialism, reductionism and we explain it as the only healing . The science says that only more research can cure what the science has produced ie. all the pollution , pesticides etc.
- He even stared thinking that praying for health would be more useful, costs much less and consumes less inner energy.
He does not believe that the sole saving power of natural science as the only answer. The western world is making a huge mistake by forcing it."
We are in a ‘dead end street’ through which we view and try to explain the world. There are thousands of possibilities . The human history is full of wisdom, be it the Indians, Chinese, Persian, greeks. They all lived the way they could , sometimes better , sometimes worst, he thinks ‘happier’ , a stupid world to use , than we are now.”
“He even stared thinking that praying for health would be more useful, costs much less and consumes less inner energy. He does not believe that the sole saving power of natural science as the only answer. The western world is making a huge mistake by forcing it.”
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Can it be turned around?
No, he does not think so .
As to turn around these circular paradigms as Kuhn writes, the scientific philosopher , it happens every few hundred years.
It may be conceivable , he can imagine in a society that stops being interested in what we class today as natural sciences."
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Corpop
November 10, 2022 - 12:34am
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Erwin Chargaff- interview 1989
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We are in a ‘dead end street’ through which we view and try to explain the world. There are thousands of possibilities . The human history is full of wisdom, be it the Indians, Chinese, Persian, greeks. They all lived the way they could , sometimes better , sometimes worst, he thinks ‘happier’ , a stupid world to use , than we are now.”
“He even stared thinking that praying for health would be more useful, costs much less and consumes less inner energy.
He does not believe that the sole saving power of natural science as the only answer. The western world is making a huge mistake by forcing it.”
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