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Article: Science and sensibility.(Where We Stand at the End of the Millennium, part 1)(Transcript)
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- Free Inquiry
- Article date:
- December 22, 1998
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WHERE WE STAND AT THE END OF THE MILLENNIUM
PART 1 OF A TWO-PART SERIES
Richard Dawkins delivered the following lecture in London in the spring of 1998 as part of a series called "Sounding the Century: What will the Twentieth Century Leave to Its Heirs?" PArts of this lecture are followed up in his latest book, Unweaving the Rainbow.
With trepidation and humility, I find myself the only scientist in this list of lectures. Does it really fall to me alone to "sound the century" for science; to reflect on the science that we bequeath to our heirs? The twentieth could be science's golden century: the age of Einstein, Hawking, and relativity, of ...