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Just a word about all those "people" out there who enjoy relating better to science (technology). Some do, and that is worth promoting, as you do. But some don't, as C.P.Snow noted long ago and Rudy Baum revisited in his essay "Science And The Nature Of Awe." There is also a large group of "people" in society who are feed up with technology and its predominance in the Western world. Our science to them is cold and heartless and its mechanistic approach robs them of nature's grandeur.
I don't think we can convert them, but we should not think that ours is the only show in town.

The above ref. is from Chemical & Engineering News for vol. 79, June 4, 2001, pp. 56-62 (and several letters to the editor in the July 23 issue).

Bill shilling

Food for thought:

"Regardless of different personal views about science, no credible understanding of the natural world or our human existence…can ignore the basic insights of theories as key as evolution, relativity, and quantum mechanics." - The Dalai Lama
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