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I represent to myself the vast body of science as a large area strewn with dark places and with illuminated places. Our labors should have as their aim, either to extend the limits of the lit-up places, or to multiply the number of centers of illumination. One is for the creative genius; the other for the wisdom which improves, develops, amplifies.
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Denis Diderot, L’interprétation de la nature, 1754, quoted from the English translation in Gerd Buchdahl, The Image of Newton and Locke in the Age of Reason (London, 1961) pp.80–81
J.-J. Rousseau, Discours sur les sciences et les arts, 1750, quoted from Gerd Buchdahl, op. cit., pp.97–98.
Arthur O. Lovejoy, The Supposed Primitivism of Rousseau’s Discourse on Inequality, Modern Philology, XXI (1923), reprinted in Essays in the History of Ideas (New York, 1955 ) pp. 14–37.
Schiller, writing to Goethe 8 July 1796 from Jena, Goethe/Schiller Briefwechsel ( Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 1961 ) p. 126.
Goethe, to Schiller (undated) ibid. p. 130–131: und ich komme mir vor wie einer, der, nachdem er viele und grosse Zahlen über einander gestellt, endlich mutvillig selbst Additionsfehler machte, um die letzte Summe aus Gott was weiss was für einer Grille zu verringern.
William Wordsworth, Advertisement to Lyrical Ballads, composed 13 April to 13 September 1798, in William Wordsworth, Selected Prose, edited by John O. Hayden (Harmondsworth, 1988) p.275.
ibid. p. 27
e. g. in Appendix 1850 and in Essay, Supplementary to the Preface (1815).
Emile Zola, Le roman expérimental, edited by Aimé Guedj (Paris, Gamier, 1971 ) p. 92.
Which is properly noted by the translators in the most recent translation by Howard V. Hong and Edna H. Hong (Princeton, 1983 ).
To be fair, one has to admit that Snow showed himself very aware of the distorting effects of his dichotomy. See the new edition of his two lectures (1959 and 1963) edited and with an illuminating introduction by Stefan Collini (Cambridge, 1993 ). Fairness never bothered Dr Leavis in his various rebuffs to Lord Snow: they are conveniently reprinted in F.R. Leavis, Nor shall my Sword: Discourses on Pluralism, Compassion and Social Hope (London, 1972 ).
A.B. Pippard, “The Invincible Ignorance of Science”, The Sir Arthur Eddington Memorial Lecture 1988, The Great Ideas Today 1990 Encyclopaedia Britannica (Chicago etc., 1990 ) pp. 324–337.
Gaston Bachelard, La Psychanalyse du feu ( Paris, Gallimard, 1938 ) p. 10.
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Printz-Påhlson, G. (1995). Experiment, Science, Literature. In: Göranzon, B. (eds) Skill, Technology and Enlightenment: On Practical Philosophy. Artificial Intelligence and Society. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3001-7_20
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