The Blind Spot Quotes

“viewable from a perfectly objective, perfectly perspectiveless perspective—a “view from nowhere.”
― Adam Frank, The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience

“Nobody asked for quantum mechanics, and in a sense, nobody really wanted it when it arrived.”
― Adam Frank, The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience

“Thus the bodies are perceived as with qualities which in reality do not belong to them, qualities which are in fact purely the offspring of the mind. Thus nature gets credit which should in truth be reserved for ourselves: the rose for its scent: the nightingale for his song: and the sun for his radiance. The poets are entirely mistaken. They should address their lyrics to themselves, and should turn them into odes of self-congratulation on the excellency of the human mind. Nature is a dull affair, soundless, scentless, colourless; merely the hurrying of material, endlessly, meaninglessly.”
― Adam Frank, The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience

“The Death of Nature: Women, Ecology, and the Scientific Revolution, argues that although Bacon advanced egalitarianism by establishing the inductive method by which anyone, in principle, can verify for themselves the truths of science, he also helped to undermine communal agrarian society in favor of “an emerging market economy that tended to widen the gap between upper and lower social classes by concentrating more wealth in the hands of merchants, clothiers, entrepreneurial adventurers, and yeoman farmers through the exploitation and alteration of nature for the sake of progress.”
― Adam Frank, The Blind Spot: Why Science Cannot Ignore Human Experience