NBC Symphony Orchestra

You may not find it so easy to catch up with an Energetic Tortoise. ACHILLES: Only a fool would bet on a slow-footed Tortoise, racing against me. Last one to ZenoБЂ™s house is a monkeyБЂ™s uncle! Reflections БЂњWell, all these fantasies have been fun, but they canБЂ™t really tell us anything. TheyБЂ™re just so much science fiction. If you want to learn the truthБЂ”the hard factsБЂ”about something, you have to turn to real science, which so far has had little to tell us about the ultimate nature of the mind.БЂ«This response conjures up a familiar but impoverished vision of science as a collection of precise mathematical formulae, meticulous experiments, and vast catalogues of species and genera, ingredients and recipes. This is the picture of science as strictly a data-gathering enterprise in which imagination is tightly reined in by incessant demands for proof. Even some scientists have this vision of their profession, and are deeply suspicious of their more playful colleagues, however eminent. Perhaps some symphony orchestra players view their business as nothing but precise noise-making produced under conditions of militaristic discipline ...»