[lbo-talk] Baby thoughts

[Alan Rudy]

> Science is a relatively recent human invention; people and animals they
> been figuring out how their bodies work and how the world works for a long,
> long time.  Perhaps turn the referent of the simile around: a scientist is
> like--a little drooling baby?
>
>
I know lotsa scientists... and I like this.  Big, riefied, anally
inductivist science is a relatively new human invention... not science as
babies do it, careful, systematic, multimethodological and relational praxis
- and, nodding to Merton (against my will), babies are surprisingly
transparent and communalist (and they laugh more than most big-S
scientists.)

homo faber = homo sciencicus?