{"id":465,"date":"2008-11-26T20:43:51","date_gmt":"2008-11-26T20:43:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/11\/26\/_business_you_dont_like\/"},"modified":"2008-11-26T20:43:51","modified_gmt":"2008-11-26T20:43:51","slug":"_business_you_dont_like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/2008\/11\/26\/_business_you_dont_like\/","title":{"rendered":"‘… business you don’t like’"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s no secret that I’m no fan of P Z Myers. In fact, I think he’s a bit of a drongo (as the shackle-draggers might have it). So it’s a bit of a shock to find myself agreeing<\/a> with him.<\/p>\n

\nAs I implied<\/a> previously, I don’t do science because it’s useful, or important<\/em>. I do science because I find it beautiful. I’m not just talking about pretty pictures of cells or protein structures, although I’ve posted enough of those around the place. <\/p>\n

\nFinding out how things work, how the natural world fits together. It is<\/em> important, and it is<\/em> beautiful\u2014even if we’re not trying to cure a disease or invent a more efficient jet engine. Just because it’s there, because we’re part of it: because just like art and music and literature it’s part of what makes us human.<\/p>\n


\nI could say science is beautiful because it’s looking into the mind of God, but that would merely be a deliberate attempt to piss off Myers (and Turnpenny) so I shan’t.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s no secret that I’m no fan of P Z Myers. In fact, I think he’s a bit of a drongo (as the shackle-draggers might have it). So it’s a bit of a shock to find myself agreeing with him. … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/occamstypewriter.org\/rpg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}