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    Steven Pinker‏Verified account @sapinker 9 May 2016

    The "tentacles of science unweave the rainbow" Why do literary intellectuals fear science? Prefer spooks? Ignorance?https://goo.gl/5MB7Fk 

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      1. Joscha Bach‏ @Plinz 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker It has to do with how brains represent sacredness. As a child, I was worried musical theory would destroy appreciation of music

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      1. Krème de la Krèmlin‏ @ztarasj 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker Why do scientists fear literary intellectuals? Prefer robots? Ignorance?

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      1. Jigu‏ @okJigu 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker @RiotWhiski If anything, science's advances can help building even more interesting tales.

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      1. John Richardson‏ @1anhaga 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker I'm a science-literate literary intellectual. I don't fear science. I fear ignorance.https://behindthehedge.wordpress.com/2015/03/03/ever-since-i-was-little/ …

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      1. Lips Manlis‏ @LipsManlis 9 May 2016
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        .@sapinker the idea that understanding is an enemy of beauty is just one more thing that holds us back as a species.

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      1. Sabahat Zakariya‏Verified account @sabizak 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker They'd barely be 'intellectuals' if they fear science, literary or otherwise. Seems an unnecessarily generalized statements

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      1. Ehud Ur‏ @udiur 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker this what happens when you have an incomplete education with scientific illiteracy. Ignorance and fear.

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      1. Rzeug‏ @spaetchel 11 May 2016
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        science dissolves the magic. Awe of the infathomable can be as beautiful of an experience as understanding / problem solving.

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      1. Mark Dery‏ @markdery 11 May 2016
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        @sapinker More horrifyingly, why do they mix metaphors? Curb your tropes, people.

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      1. Bruce K. Adler‏ @BruceKAdler 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker Science, religion, and magic were philosophical allies for millennia, and as popular culture has it -- breakin' up is hard to do.

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      1. Marie Green‏ @meta4media 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour -WB

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      1. Marie Green‏ @meta4media 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker As someone who started as a "literary intellectual" I think this is likely to change as future generations embrace plasticity

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      1. Tali Chilson #WeStandWithCorbyn‏ @thistle8blowerg 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker Mathematics. Besides William Empson, T. S Eliot & Wallace Stevens, Literary scholars tend2 think that science is all down to Maths

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      1. Kameron Decker Harris‏ @KameronDHarris 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker @Evolutionistrue because they weren't good at it in school?

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      1. Calcifer‏ @StefanTarr 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker Science is *hard*. Many heuristically replace it with something easy.

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      1. Bryant Wagner‏ @SL128T 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker Literary works require romanticization, which necessitates fudging of reality. Many then overextend romanticization to truth.

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      1. Nicola Davies‏ @nicolakidsbooks 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker because they are mostly arts graduates who can't change a plug

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      1. Ryan Letchworth‏ @LetchworthRyan 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker @olydbrown @martinarcher Because,on the whole,they prefer to take the long view→→ http://selenadreamy.blogspot.co.uk/2016/04/the-universe-is-not-euclidean_22.html …pic.twitter.com/kwX9cunEfp

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      1. peter85‏ @petew77 9 May 2016
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        @sapinker consciousness and God will ever be beyond science

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