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Edge of Objectivity (1960)
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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
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It has been said that idleness is the parent of mischief, which is very true; but mischief itself is merely an attempt to escape from the dreary vacuum of idleness.
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Charles Coulston Gillispie
Born:
August 6, 1918
Died:
October 6, 2015
(aged 97)
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