Different and yet alike
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233 Last year saw the posthumous publication of Stephen Jay Gould’s last volume, The Hedgehog, the Fox and the Magister’s Pox (Gould, 2003) with the subtitle ‘Mending and minding the misconceived gap between science and the humanities’. The two protagonists were chosen to represent metaphorically a stereotypical disparity between two different ways of ‘knowing’ or looking at nature. The hedgehog, always returning to its one great and effective strategy of rolling up with its spines exposed in response to danger, represents the methodical persistence of science, whereas the cunning fox, always devising different strategies to escape its predators, represents the creative flexibility of the arts.
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