{"id":10151,"date":"2018-11-25T10:20:29","date_gmt":"2018-11-25T15:20:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/?p=10151"},"modified":"2018-11-25T10:20:29","modified_gmt":"2018-11-25T15:20:29","slug":"those-little-books-that-have-a-big-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/10151","title":{"rendered":"Those Little Books That Have A Big Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst wandering Google searching for a quote I found this&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.&#8221;<br \/>-Jacob Bronowski, <em>Science and Human Values<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>I still regard this book with something akin to awe. In it Bronowski showed me the likeness between science and art that helped me a lot back when I was a teenager and my science geek side and art geek side were at war with each other. Also, how the practice of science is at its core a profoundly moral endeavor.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s short&#8230;just three essays on the topic, &#8220;The Creative Mind&#8221;, &#8220;The Habit of Truth&#8221;, and &#8220;The Sense of Human Dignity&#8221;, which combine to make a very powerful whole in such a slender volume. You can read the whole thing in under an hour. But it will stick with you long after.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst wandering Google searching for a quote I found this&#8230; &#8220;A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.&#8221;-Jacob Bronowski, Science and Human Values I still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[99],"class_list":["post-10151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life","tag-the-human-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10151\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brucegarrett.com\/brucelog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}