I could only care slightly less for Steve Jobs, but this comment was an excellent read. lol @ doctors needing to know more stats, so true.
"But by not requiring a deep, and I mean deep knowledge of hard science for any liberal arts degree, our great institutions have created an artificial separation between learned people."
But I think it goes both ways; I'd like to see more hard scientists with a strong background in the liberal arts.
Reminds me of how Oxford (it might still do so) calls their Physics degree/certification a degree in Natural Philosophy.
> But I think it goes both ways; I'd like to see more hard scientists with a strong background in the liberal arts.
Exactly, I actually kind of have a little bit of sympathy for a guy like Oppenheimer that cited John Donne and the Bhagavad Gita after the first nuclear test (even though even the thought of nuclear bombs almost makes me sick to my stomach), but I suspect that today's scientists are not that versed in "liberal arts".
I try to be one of those scientists who is also well-versed in the humanities.
There are very few rewards for it, though, apart from a smug feeling of superiority to everybody and a massive further decrease in the number of people with whom I have anything in common. :)
"But by not requiring a deep, and I mean deep knowledge of hard science for any liberal arts degree, our great institutions have created an artificial separation between learned people."
But I think it goes both ways; I'd like to see more hard scientists with a strong background in the liberal arts.
Reminds me of how Oxford (it might still do so) calls their Physics degree/certification a degree in Natural Philosophy.