But regular biology, as an "ology," has to be "scientific," and this means in practice that it has to be made dull.... Everything has to be expressed in utterly impersonal terms.
If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists.... Most of these people are incapable of communica… - Anthony Standen
If you want to understand human beings, there are plenty of people to go to besides psychologists.... Most of these people are incapable of communica…
- Anthony Standen
Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the … - Anthony Standen
Education, like everything else, goes in fads, and has the normal human tendency to put up with something bad for just so long, and then rush to the …
We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything special in the way of brains… - Anthony Standen
We are having wool pulled over our eyes if we let ourselves be convinced that scientists, taken as a group, are anything special in the way of brains…
The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justif… - Anthony Standen
The dreadful cocksureness that is characteristic of scientists in bulk is not only quite foreign to the spirit of true science, it is not even justif…
Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved.... The precise theory has… - Anthony Standen
Evolution ... is really two theories, the vague theory and the precise theory. The vague theory has been abundantly proved.... The precise theory has…
Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a textbook, … - Anthony Standen
Science ... must be absorbed in order to inculcate that wonderful humility before the facts of nature that comes from close attention to a textbook, …
The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that th… - Anthony Standen
The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that th…
There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and their dupes… - Anthony Standen
There are science teachers who actually claim that they teach "a healthy skepticism." They do not. They teach a profound gullibility, and their dupes…
It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible exper… - Anthony Standen
It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible exper…
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