¶ Science: Gap Between Science and the Humanities
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Science: Gap Between Science and the Humanities:
"… There has been the thought of nonconceptuality in the area you explored and it seemed to be just purely mathematical. It didn’t seem to be easy to communicate between science and the general public and the literary man has been the man who was supposed to explain what is going on to the public. He is the fellow who communicates but he couldn’t understand. The scientist said: you can’t follow, and that in a sense, is what snow is writing about-- about the real chasms that have grown up between the scientist and the people. He speaks about it in the terms of the literary man because he is a literary man and there is nothing he can explain to people of what is going on in science. I will make a prediction to you that in this next half century you will see a development of comprehension of science by everybody. Science is comprehending in the terms of conceptuality…
“In the period we speak of as the gay nineties, about that era of time, the physics was moving ahead rapidly and we are coming out of the time of Clerk Maxwell and Hertz and the development of the electromagnetic wave, the phenomenon electricity is beginning to come along, and this is the beginning of the era of dynamos, and so forth. Principles are being”
