Word: horgan
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...know a discipline has arrived when its detractors start depicting themselves as radicals assaulting the intellectual status quo. This fall John Horgan (The End of Science) will come out with a book that, according to its publisher's catalog, "boldly contradicts all standard views" of psychology, "including those of Steven Pinker and E.O. Wilson." Ah, vindication at last...
...Horgan Street. resident said a woman threatened her with scissors after the two became involved in an argument. The complainant was smoking near a window when the suspect confronted...
...treat the title of John Horgan's The End of Science with a grain of salt [IDEAS, Sept. 9]. Some writers scramble to make "history" when running out of topics, which is hardly the case with science. How about some humility, like the kind Sir Isaac Newton had when he saw himself as "a boy playing on the sea-shore...now and then finding a smoother pebble...whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me." With the inner universe waiting for an Einstein to formulate a unified theory of mind and body, there is much...
After reading your review of Paul Horgan's controversial book The End of Science [IDEAS, Sept. 9], I've come up with some additions to the list of science's "unsolved mysteries." The creation of the universe is attributed to the Big Bang, but where did the superdense mass that existed before the bang come from? Also, it has taken thousands of years for modern man to develop the computer. What took so long? Is today's high-tech engineer of a higher mental capacity than Aristotle, who, as you say, couldn't have conceived of the Hubble Space Telescope...
...list does not mean it has checked them all. What was going on before the Big Bang? Astronomers have some ideas, but little more. What are the most basic subatomic particles? Physicists suggest they're tiny 10-dimensional objects called superstrings, but nobody has shown that these really exist. Horgan claims that such questions are less science than they are philosophy because we can't test them. But that won't necessarily always be so. Aristotle couldn't have conceived of the Hubble Space Telescope; what makes Horgan think we can imagine the scientific equipment of the year...