Mothers, unless they were very poor, didn’t work. Both of my parents had to leave education. My mother had to work in a cotton mill until 18 or 19, when she took some training in domestic science.
Category: science
I’ve always been a fan of science fiction films, and I’ve never been able to put my particular spin on it.
I meant exactly what I said: that we are saddled with a culture that hasn’t advanced as far as science.
It may be far in the future, but there’s some kind of logical way to get from where we are to where the science fiction is.
I think what a life in science really teaches you is the vastness of our ignorance.
Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.
When I was a kid, I loved ‘The Curse of Frankenstein,’ ‘The Creeping Unknown,’ ‘X: The Unknown.’ I love ‘Forbidden Planet,’ ‘The Thing from Another World.’ They were science fiction/horror movies, generally.
Polygraph tests are 20th-century witchcraft.
Anthropology was the science that gave her the platform from which she surveyed, scolded and beamed at the world.
The monopoly of science in the realm of knowledge explains why evolutionary biologists do not find it meaningful to address the question whether the Darwinian theory is true.