Summoned
from the Void - The Rise and Fall of British Science
Has
progress in basic science slowed? Why is there so much public distrust of
science? Anti-science is now widespread - both religious and hardline environmentalism.
Science
is now a business, not the search for the truth. Dogma is enforced on young
scientists: if you want to work in astronomy, you have to believe in the Big
Bang; in biology, the neo-Darwinian doctrine of genetic determinism. Dissent is
stifled within the profession and recently the British government has started
to persecute scientists who question its political imperatives, with fatal
consequences.
Summoned
from the Void
describes scientific laws in an entirely new way. Based on the concept of the noumen, science can be understood in words alone.
There are no equations. The purpose of science is to grasp the noumena - "thoughts that wander through
eternity" (Milton) that govern everything in the world.
We have
lost the magical, divine inspiration that drove the early scientists of the
modern era, Isaac Newton in particular. Science is about more than "wealth
creation". We have forgotten the purpose of science and how to produce
great scientists. This intellectual and imaginative failure is linked to the
loss of our sense of virtue.
Science
has been the source of all our wealth and well-being, yet the fountain has been
running dry for over thirty years. There has been no advance in basic science -
the way we conceive the world - since the 1970s. Why is this, what are the
consequences, and how can we hope to make progress again?
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