Isolation, Persuasion and Conviction
Sustaining the Culture of Science

Center for Science and Society Brown Bag Lunch
September 18, 2002

Samantha Glazier
Keck Fellow
Department of Chemistry


What Sustains the Culture of Science?

• Isolation
  • Complex Language
  • Select Membership

• Persuasion
  • Discoveries save lives
  • Asks big questions like "What are the origins of life and the universe?"
  • Exalts humans (endpoint of evolution)
  • Predicts the future (natural disasters, meteors, famine, flood)

• Conviction
  • Seeks Certainty
  • Indoctrination

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