Dorion Sagan , son of Carl Sagan and Lynn Margulis , weighs in on the dialectical relationship between science and philosophy .
The inverted comma appears in the introduction to Sagan ’s recently published Good Book , Cosmic Apprentice : Dispatches from the Edges of Science , wherein he examines the balance between science and philosophy , while lambasting the dictatorship of the former and the obscurantism of the latter as “ equally formidable obstacles to find . ”
More from Sagan on why skill and philosophy take each other over atBrainPickings , where Maria Popova does a great job of comparing Sagan ’s strong belief with those of Richard Feynman , Buckminster Fuller , Neil deGrasse Tyson , and his later father .
[ Brain Pickings ]
buckminster fullerScience
Daily Newsletter
Get the good tech , scientific discipline , and culture news in your inbox day by day .
News from the future , surrender to your present .
You May Also Like
