JosephCounterpoints
Integrated or interdisciplinary studies at colleges and universities have at least partly bridged the divides between academic disciplines. Nonetheless, I think contrasts in the viewpoints of physicist and Nobel laureate Richard Feynman (1918-1988) with naturalist and philosopher Aldo Leopold (1887-1948) remain interesting.
Richard Feynman (1918-1988), a physicist and Nobel laureate, once reportedly said "Philosophy of science is as useful to scientists as ornithology is to birds."
Aldo Leopold (1887-1948), a naturalist and philosopher, wrote this in A Sand County Almanac—And Sketches Here and There: “There are men charged with the duty of examining the construction of the plants, animals, and soils which are the instruments of the great orchestra. These men are called professors. Each selects one instrument and spends his life taking it apart and describing its strings and sounding boards. This process of dismemberment is called research. The place for dismemberment is called a university. A professor may pluck the strings of his own instrument, but never that of another, and if he listens for music he must never admit it to his fellows or to his students. For all are restrained by an ironbound taboo which decrees that the construction of instruments is the domain of science, while the detection of harmony is the domain of poets… Professors serve science and science serves progress. It serves progress so well that many of the more intricate instruments are stepped upon and broken in the rush to spread progress to all backward lands. One by one the parts are thus stricken from the song of songs.”
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