Richard Holmes, in “The Age of Wonder,” a place (like here) where I love all the words, a place I believe in with my whole chrome heart, shining in the sun. The entire book is a poem, the best possible words in the best possible order, including the quote above and, here:
“We need to understand how science is actually made; how scientists themselves think and feel and speculate. We need to explore what makes scientists creative, as well as poets or painters, or musicians. That is how this book began. The old, rigid debates and boundaries - science versus religion, science versus the arts, science versus traditional ethics - are no longer enough. We should be impatient with them. We need a wider, more generous, more imaginative perspective. Above all, perhaps, 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.”
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