“More than ever before, it was assumed that the methods of natural science could be—and should be—used to understand and solve the problems facing society. This ideal—though it has had a checkered history in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries—remains at… — Laura J. Snyder Copy Share Image
“Babbage, Herschel, Jones, and Whewell are a strange breed: the last of the natural philosophers, who engendered, as it were with their dying breath,… — Laura J. Snyder Copy Share Image
“As both Herschel and Whewell would remark in their writings on science, the scientific process is inevitably a social one. Discoveries are not made… — Laura J. Snyder Copy Share Image
“A wall was slowly being constructed between art and science, a wall that still stands today.” — Laura J. Snyder Copy Share Image
“More than ever before, it was assumed that the methods of natural science could be—and should be—used to understand and solve the problems facing… — Laura J. Snyder Copy Share Image
