/* PRIVILÉGIOS DE SÍSIFO 反对 一 切 現代性に対して - 風想像力: SCIENCE

PRIVILÉGIOS DE SÍSIFO 反对 一 切 現代性に対して - 風想像力

LES PRIVILÉGES DE SISYPHE - SISYPHUS'PRIVILEGES - LOS PRIVILÉGIOS DE SÍSIFO - 風想像力 CONTRA CONTRE AGAINST MODERNISM Gegen Modernität CONTRA LA MODERNITÁ E FALSO CAVIARE SAIAM DA AUTOESTRADA FLY WITH WHOMEVER YOU CAN SORTEZ DE LA QUEUE Contra Tudo : De la Musique Avant Toute Chose: le Retour de la Poèsie comme Seule Connaissance ou La Solitude Extréme du Dandy Ibérique - Ensaios de uma Altermodernidade すべてに対して

2007-05-10

SCIENCE

Advance in science comes by laying brick upon brick, not by sudden erection of fairy palaces.
- J. S. Huxley

Advance in poetry comes by laying palace upon palace, not by sudden erection of fairy bricks.
- M.Drummond

And what about gradual erection of fairy palaces by laying science upon science?

Commentary of J.S. Huxley proposition: J.S. distrusts sudden erections. But aren't all erections sudden when you're young or vigorous? He also distrusts palaces, especially fairy palaces.

He trusts gradual erection - a sucession of incomplete erections - and brick layered, modest houses. The modest scientist, puritan, with a fear of sudden erections, turning his back on fairies and palaces, goes his way, laying bricks.


Is science a modest edifice composed of a lot of tiny bricks, excluding any resemblance with a palace, and most of all with a fairy palace?

posted by Miguel Drummond de Castro | 12:06