Science: The road to slavery? - Journal of ... - ACS Publications

Aug 1, 1981 - Keywords (Domain):. History / Philosophy. Keywords (Feature):. Editorially Speaking. Keywords (Subject):. Administrative Issues. View: P...
0 downloads 0 Views 1003KB Size
editoridly /peaking Science: The Road to Slavery? in the first Jefferson Lecture on the Humanities, given in 1972, author and essayist Lional Trilling lamented the "ex-

clusion of most of us from the mode of thought which is hahitually said to be the characteristic achievement of the modem agen-science-"because it lies beyond the intellectual grasp of most men." To Trilline. ", science is excluded from the development of the human intellect a s incomprehensible. The 10th Jefferson Lecturer. the distineuished nhvsicist " . " and historian of science Gerald Holton, points out that while science and technolorn ... continue to mow more and more central to our li