{Science and Stupidity [continued (3)]}[1st July 1988]

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'It was Flaubert who showed that stupidity is never simply the absence of knowledge, but “an inseparable dimension of human experience” – “the non-thought of received ideas”, as Kundera puts it.'*

Despite the overwhelming sensation of arrogance emanating from many (if not most) modern Scientists, my impression is that (as with most other fields of human endeavour) it is the middle rather than the top or the bottom which presents the problem: not so much the intellectuality of the theoreticians,** nor the ordinary humanity of the labourers of 'science' (mechanics etc.), but the vast bulk of Scientists properly called, whose immersion in the necessarily limited horizons of Science is so complete that they have forgotten everything else.

*Gabriel Josipovici, Review (Milan Kundera, The Art of the Novel) T[imes ]L[iterary ]S[upplement] 24-30/6/88, 696.

**{(But cf earlier [[Redbook5:194-196][19880701.0000]{Science and Stupidity}[1st July 1988], presumably])}

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