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Article: The shadowland of democracy: an understanding of science is more important than ever in our free society - and less attainable.
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- November 14, 1988
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The progress of science has always been marked by the discovery of explanations seemingly contradictory or opposed to common sense. Since the first primitive man discovered that he could cross a stream without getting wet, every epoch-making discovery of science or technology began as a paradox. And the paradoxes have multiplied. Copernicus defied the common sense of experience by proposing that the Earth goes around the sun. Galileo insisted that the apparently stable Earth is constantly rotating at an astonishing speed. Darwin persuaded us that species of plants and animals are not immutable, but slowly evolve, from the amoeba up to mankind. Physicists have ...
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