Paul McClintock / blog

“But to totally pull out of my ass a quote that I read a long time ago, and that stuck in my head, but I have no idea where I read it: at some point we had philosophy, and then a couple hundred years ago, that started changing, and this thing called science was born. And a lot of people didn’t want to think in the scientific way, and thereby excluded themselves from the most relevant discussions of the meaning of our world that are possible right now. Because those discussions are grounded in scientific observation, and experiments, and empirical validation. And it’s a different kind of rhetoric than what now happens in philosophy, and criticism of literature and art. And what [this person] said was, that he felt that there was perhaps even a kind of bitterness between the art people and the scientifically grounded people, because perhaps the art people felt that they did end up on the wrong side of the discussion, that they were missing something.”