Comments on: A furry flurry of fully furrowed brows: my beef with Freeman Dyson, part II http://madronoranch.com/?p=2022 Sun, 25 Sep 2016 11:55:28 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.41 By: Ash http://madronoranch.com/?p=2022#comment-433 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 14:35:23 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=2022#comment-433 I don’t think there is a disconnect between Dyson’s eloquent words about “technical arrogance” and his urging scientists to use all the tools at their disposal, since the two statements seem to refer to two separate aspects of the scientific and human enterprise. The technical arrogance which he mentions is the tendency of the physicists to divorce science from moral decisions and to indulge in their technical proficiency for the sheer scientific pleasure that they get out of it.

The second statement is really about scientific discovery. I think here Dyson is simply saying that we should use all tools at our disposal to get the most out of Nature. Developing tools to understand Nature and thinking about the moral implications of using the tools before indulging in them- two different things.

]]> By: Adrienne Rivers http://madronoranch.com/?p=2022#comment-429 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 23:13:27 +0000 http://madronoranch.com/?p=2022#comment-429 Heather, your writing is the most beautiful amalgam of theology, art, science, and care for our human and broader environmental concerns. PLEASE keep sharing your intellectual and literary gifts. You bring me hope. (Please excuse the sappiness factor.) Adrienne

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