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MODERN FRENCH PHILOSOPHY - CHAPTER III - SCIENCE (10990 words) |
 | The sciences of nature may be allowed and encouraged to work diligently upon their own principles, but the very fact that they are individual sciences compels them to admit that they view the whole "piecemeal". |
| The critique of science, which is so prominent in Boutroux, was characteristic of a number of thinkers whom we cannot do more than mention here in passing, for in general their work is not in line with the spiritualist development, but is a sub-current running out and separated from the main stream. |
| Science promises us well-being or pleasure, but philosophy, claims Bergson, can give us joy, by its intuitions, its super-intellectual vision, that vital contact with life itself in its fulness, which is far grander and truer than all the abstractions of science. |
| ninemsn Encarta - Pasteur, Louis (656 words) |
| Pasteur was born in Dôle on December 27, 1822, the son of a tanner, and grew up in the small town of Arbois. |
| This faculty had been set up partly to serve as a means of applying science to the practical problems of the industries of the region, especially the manufacture of alcoholic drinks. |
| In 1865 Pasteur was summoned from Paris, where he had become administrator and director of scientific studies at the École Normale, to come to the aid of the silk industry in southern France. |
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