Dorion Sagan, son of Carl Sagan and Lynn Margulis, weighs in on the dialectical relationship between science and philosophy.
The quote appears in the introduction to Sagan’s recently published book, Cosmic Apprentice: Dispatches from the Edges of Science, wherein he examines the balance between science and philosophy, while lambasting the authoritarianism of the former and the obscurantism of the latter as “equally formidable obstacles to discovery.”
More from Sagan on why science and philosophy need each other over at BrainPickings, where Maria Popova does a great job of comparing Sagan’s convictions with those of Richard Feynman, Buckminster Fuller, Neil deGrasse Tyson, and his late father.
