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Nature is one. Science should be one. But we see that contemporary ‘science’ is fragmented into disciplines, departments, and specialties in an arbitrary and artificial manner. Our ‘science’ has fallen to these present depths under the sheer weight of its accumulated data and literature. Since no one of us can any longer hope to sift through all of the paper that has been accumulated, we face a choice: we can admit how little we know about nature as a whole — or we can restrict our areas of knowledgeability to fit our capacities, and thus continue to appear knowledgeable. Most scholars choose the course that is more self-flattering: since we cannot be experts on the panorama of nature, we instead become experts on solar prominences, or on Homeric epic, or on Bristlecone pines, or on Mayan sculpture, just so that there remains at least something on which we can be experts.
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Rose, L.E. (1976). The Domination of Astronomy Over Other Disciplines. In: Cohen, R.S., Hooker, C.A., Michalos, A.C., Van Evra, J.W. (eds) PSA 1974. Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1449-6_25
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