D'après le témoignage ci-dessous sur Eiseley (lu dans Wikipédia) une majorité de scientifiques à son époque avait le souci de l'écologie, excepté ceux qui travaillaient pour la bombe atomique évidemment. La science visait à améliorer la condition humaine. Aujourd'hui une frénésie de la technologie agit à mon sens tel un bulldozer sur les rêves d'un monde plus humain, moins consumériste, elle les pulvérise. Fatalité des emplois supprimés en masse "grâce" aux technologies nouvelles, alors qu'une vision écologique suivie d'une mise en pratique du respect de l'environnement en créerait. Je vois à notre époque une dichotomie désormais de la science et de l'écologie... dichotomie de l'âme et du corps, du besoin de respirer et de celui de jouir matériellement de la vie. Le témoignage sur le scientifique en question :
"Eiseley’s national reputation was established mainly through his books, including The Immense Journey (1957), Darwin's Century (1958), The Unexpected Universe (1969), The Night Country (1971), and his memoir, All the Strange Hours (1975). Science author Orville Prescott praised him as a scientist who “can write with poetic sensibility and with a fine sense of wonder and of reverence before the mysteries of life and nature.“ Naturalist author Mary Ellen Pitts saw his combination of literary and nature writings as his "quest, not simply for bringing together science and literature... but a continuation of what the 18th and 19th century British naturalists and Thoreau had done." In praise of "The Unexpected Universe", Ray Bradbury remarked, "[Eiseley] is every writer's writer, and every human's human. . . one of us, yet most uncommon. . ."
"Eiseley’s national reputation was established mainly through his books, including The Immense Journey (1957), Darwin's Century (1958), The Unexpected Universe (1969), The Night Country (1971), and his memoir, All the Strange Hours (1975). Science author Orville Prescott praised him as a scientist who “can write with poetic sensibility and with a fine sense of wonder and of reverence before the mysteries of life and nature.“ Naturalist author Mary Ellen Pitts saw his combination of literary and nature writings as his "quest, not simply for bringing together science and literature... but a continuation of what the 18th and 19th century British naturalists and Thoreau had done." In praise of "The Unexpected Universe", Ray Bradbury remarked, "[Eiseley] is every writer's writer, and every human's human. . . one of us, yet most uncommon. . ."
According to his obituary in the New York Times, the feeling and philosophical motivation of the entire body of Eiseley’s work was best expressed in one of his essays, The Enchanted Glass: “The anthropologist wrote of the need for the contemplative naturalist, a man who, in a less frenzied era, had time to observe, to speculate, and to dream.” Shortly before his death he received an award from the Boston Museum of Scieence for his “outstanding contribution to the public understanding of science” and another from the U.S. Humane Society for his “significant contribution for the improvement of life and environment in this country.”"
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