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Wanting what is not already wanted, controlling what is still unforeseeable: these are the problems that move research and the public today, though in different ways. If not everything that is scientifically possible can...
Standing in front of the student club the Heretics in Cambridge in 1924, the young J.B.S. Haldane, who eventually became a famous biochemist, delivered a lecture later published under the title Daedalus, or Science and...
The Enlightenment’s dream that progress in the sciences and in technology would be the instrument for social and possibly even for moral improvements and would lead to political emancipation in the sense of an overarching...
Language is sometimes able to assimilate the new that is already present but not yet named. The term makes the new comprehensible until it becomes taken for granted. In the nineteenth century in the...