George Steiner Quote

The really deep divergence between the humanistic and scientific sensibilities is one of temporality. Very nearly by definition, the scientist knows that tomorrow will be in advance of today. A twentieth-century schoolboy can manipulate mathematical and experimental concepts inaccessible to a Galileo or a Gauss. For a scientist the curve of the future is positive. Inevitably, the humanist looks back.


"Tomorrow". - In Bluebeard's Castle (1971)


The really deep divergence between the humanistic and scientific sensibilities is one of temporality. Very nearly by definition, the scientist knows...

The really deep divergence between the humanistic and scientific sensibilities is one of temporality. Very nearly by definition, the scientist knows...

The really deep divergence between the humanistic and scientific sensibilities is one of temporality. Very nearly by definition, the scientist knows...

The really deep divergence between the humanistic and scientific sensibilities is one of temporality. Very nearly by definition, the scientist knows...