Norman Levitt Quote

The dictum that everything that people do is "cultural" licenses the idea that every cultural critic can meaningfully analyze even the most intricate accomplishments of art and science... It is distinctly weird to listen to pronouncements on the nature of mathematics from the lips of someone who cannot tell you what a complex number is!


The Flight from Science and Reason, Science, October 11, 1996 (p. 183)


The dictum that everything that people do is cultural licenses the idea that every cultural critic can meaningfully analyze even the most intricate...

The dictum that everything that people do is cultural licenses the idea that every cultural critic can meaningfully analyze even the most intricate...

The dictum that everything that people do is cultural licenses the idea that every cultural critic can meaningfully analyze even the most intricate...

The dictum that everything that people do is cultural licenses the idea that every cultural critic can meaningfully analyze even the most intricate...