As a quintessential science example, federal climatologist Ben Santer just published a pal-reviewed paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences loudly proclaiming that the dreaded man-made global warming signal has emerged from our naturally chaotic climate.

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What these two books do offer is a satisfying picture of a man who believed that the sciences and the humanities were complementary, not separate, and who proved that science affects, and is affected by, all the rest of human experience.

ECONOMIST: Robert Oppenheimer