Discovery Is Always Rape Of The Natural

Science Is A Kind Of Glorified Tailoring Enterprise, A Method For Taking Measurements That Describe Something ? Reality ? That May Not Be Understood At All.

Malcolm: A Karate Master Does Not Kill People With His Bare Hands. He Does Not Lose His Temper And Kill His Wife. The Person Who Kills Is The Person Who Has No Discipline, No Restraint, And Who Has Purchased His Power In The Form Of A Saturday Night Special. And That Is Why You Think That To Build A Place Like This Is Simple. Hammond: It Was Simple. Malcolm: Then Why Did It Go Wrong?

I Tended To Faint When I Saw Accident Victims In The Emergency Ward, During Surgery, Or While Drawing Blood.

But Complex Animals Had Obtained Their Adaptive Flexibility At Some Cost--they Had Traded One Dependency For Another. It Was No Longer Necessary To Change Their Bodies To Adapt, Because Now Their Adaptation Was Behavior, Socially Determined. That Behavior Required Learning. In A Sense, Among Higher Animals Adaptive Fitness Was No Longer Transmitted To The Next Generation By Dna At All. It Was Now Carried By Teaching.

The Planet Has Survived Everything, In Its Time. It Will Certainly Survive Us.