Humanism and Science
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T HE most common view of the relation between humanism and science is that the two elements are antithetic. In my view humanism and science are complementary. And indeed, I believe that in the last analysis each includes the other which is not to say they are identical. But this antithetic view has a long and I suppose distinguished history dating back to virtually the very beginnings of modern science. One need only recall Blake's famous line "May God us keeplfrom single vision / and Newton's sleep" through Wordsworth's "Sweet is the lore which nature brings; / Our meddling intellect / Mis-shapes the beauteous form of things:/ We murder to dissect." And on to Snow's two cultures and Roszak's critique of science as a "monster of meaninglessness" and his distinction between information and knowledge or, as he calls it, gnosis. And today, as Lewis Mumford writes in The New Yorker (March 10, 1975):
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