A HISTORICAL ATLAS OF OBJECTIVITY Export

@article{citeulike:6092534, abstract = {The mythical scientist in early twentieth-century America cut a lone figure, and He toiled through the night in his laboratory, as if working in the lab were a prayer that promised illuminationalone, absorbed, [and] contemptuous of academic success and of popular classes,beautiful dullness of long labors,illimitably ignoranta steady march toward the truth. He chose the highest calling in the world because he was so religious that he will not accept quarter-truths, because they are an insult to his faith.so devoted to Pure Science .. that he would rather have people die by the right therapy than be cured by the wrong. Having built a shrine for humanity, he wanted to kick out of it all mere human beings.\&\#8221; This autocratic figure, brilliantly insane and tyrannically honest, embodied the cult of science and objectivity.}, author = {Mi Gyung Ki, M.}, citeulike-article-id = {6092534}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&aid=6564300}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1479244309990187}, doi = {10.1017/S1479244309990187}, journal = {Modern Intellectual History}, keywords = {historyofscience, objectivity, science}, number = {03}, pages = {569--596}, posted-at = {2009-11-10 10:08:44}, priority = {2}, title = {A HISTORICAL ATLAS OF OBJECTIVITY}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1479244309990187}, volume = {6}, year = {2009} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:6092534 L3 - citeulike-article-id:6092534 N2 - The mythical scientist in early twentieth-century America cut a lone figure, and He toiled through the night in his laboratory, as if working in the lab were a prayer that promised illuminationalone, absorbed, [and] contemptuous of academic success and of popular classes,beautiful dullness of long labors,illimitably ignoranta steady march toward the truth. He chose the highest calling in the world because he was so religious that he will not accept quarter-truths, because they are an insult to his faith.so devoted to Pure Science .. that he would rather have people die by the right therapy than be cured by the wrong. Having built a shrine for humanity, he wanted to kick out of it all mere human beings.” This autocratic figure, brilliantly insane and tyrannically honest, embodied the cult of science and objectivity. IS - 03 JF - Modern Intellectual History EP - 596 TI - A HISTORICAL ATLAS OF OBJECTIVITY VL - 6 SP - 569 KW - historyofscience KW - objectivity KW - science AU - Mi Gyung Ki, M PY - 2009/// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S1479244309990187 ER -