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The usual defense from the science community toward views such as Eiseley's is that it is technology, not science itself, that has made a mess of things.
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The usual defense from the science community toward views such as Eiseley's is that it is technology, not science itself, that has made a mess of things.
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Loren Eiseley, the great anthropologist, summed it up best:
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Why Does Life Exist? M.D. Robert Lanza 2011
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Loren Eiseley grew up on the raw plains of "bone country" in Nebraska a century ago, but he went on to become a student steeped in modern geology and evolutionary theory.
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Eiseley also published volumes of poetry, although these never attained the sumptuous glory of his prose, where the craving for lyrical lavishness was tempered by a scientist's discipline: "It is not a bad symbol of that long wandering, I thought again—the human hand that has been fin and scaly reptile foot and furry paw."
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Loren Eiseley, the great anthropologist, summed it up best:
Robert Lanza, M.D.: Why Does Life Exist? M.D. Robert Lanza 2011
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He quotes Loren Eiseley, the great writer-naturalist: "The sea-beaten coast, the fierce freedom of its hunting hawks, possessed and spoke through him" (43).
Robinson Jeffers 2010
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A more poetic reflection on Boskop Man entitled "Man of the Future" was written in 1958 by science writer Loren Eiseley as a chapter of his larger volume, "The Immense Journey".
Archive 2008-04-01 2008
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A more poetic reflection on Boskop Man entitled "Man of the Future" was written in 1958 by science writer Loren Eiseley as a chapter of his larger volume, "The Immense Journey".
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Without the immense diversity of fruits, wrote Loren Eiseley in The Immense Journey, “man might still be a nocturnal insectivore gnawing a roach in the dark.”
The Fruit Hunters Adam Leith Gollner 2008
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