NORTHERN PLANNER

Why don’t more people use science as a place to look for ideas and inspiration? Perhaps the problem with most science writing is the lumpy, impersonal way it’s written, few seem to able to bring it to life. J.Bronowski’s book on the rise of civilazation is an exception though.

A big theme is the idea of science as uncertainty rather than explanation. The big leaps forward come from asking brilliant questions, from looking at things in a slightly different way.  Whenever we’ve been deluded into thinking we have all the answers, we’ve stagnated; We’re at out best when we’re uncertain. I like this point of view, I like the way it encourages me to look for people who will look at things differently to me.

So next time everybody agrees with me, I’ll get worried, since I’ll probably have missed something.