Saturday, August 11, 2012

Peas & pods

One sentence in Kuhn made me laugh.

In a passage discussing how scientific education equips students to work within the current paradigms by offering precise & systematic versions of everything they need to know form the work of the giants on whose shoulders they stand, rather than requiring them to read the original works of Newton or Einstein, Schrodinger or Harvey (still less those of Galen or Priestley) he includes the following sentence:
Of course, it is a narrow & rigid education, probably more so than any other except perhaps in orthodox theology.
Just as in politics, where the extreme Right have more in common with the extreme Left than either would care to admit, so it is with the extremes of other orthodxies

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