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The renewals of the subjective approach to nature make a pathetic theme. Its ruins lie strewn like good intentions all along the ground traversed by science, until it survives only in strange corners like Lysenkoism [doctrine centered on belief in acquired characteristics] and anthroposophy, where nature is socialized or moralized.

Charles Coulston Gillispie

Charles Coulston Gillispie

Charles Coulston Gillispie

Born: August 6, 1918

Died: October 6, 2015 (aged 97)

Bio: Charles Coulston Gillispie was an American historian of science, and the Dayton-Stockton Professor of History of Science, Emeritus at Princeton University.

Known for:

Edge of Objectivity (1960)
Science and polity in France (1980)
Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827 (1997)

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