To me it is remarkable that we do not live in a scientific age, as much as we might think otherwise. We live in an age in which we are — at least people in developed countries are — benefiting from remarkable advances in science and technology, but in our thinking, in our linguistic expression, in our way in which we deal with the universe intellectually, we are still prescientific. We might as well be agriculturalists in the Fertile Crescent, in terms of how we combine scientific knowledge with our daily idioms of thought, and I think that one of the great challenges, intellectually and in the immediate future, is to find a way of combining the best in scientific knowledge and thinking and concept and creativity, with the best of the humanities, and develop a scientific culture.
Interview [The Guardian, 31 August 1995]
Use the link below to read about the life and work of North American biologist, naturalist and writer EDWARD OSBORNE WILSON [1929 – 2021]:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01680-8
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