“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris


Thursday, September 5, 2013

Math and Reality

An interesting take courtesy of Bill Benzon.

1 comment:

cgerrish said...

opens a valuable discussion space around the metaphysics of science. What percentage of scientists are willing to engage in this discussion about math and reality?