Monday, June 11, 2012

Conscientiousness and Science

If 'God is in the details', it is only, according to traditional theology, because of his omnipresence, not because of anything divine about detail per se.  In contrast, interest in detail qua detail, facilitated by the microscope, has been remarkably fruitful for Science, as advances in Chemistry, Subatomic Physics, and digital technology continue to prove.  So, Conscientiousness--attention to, and respect for, detail--is perhaps epitomized by the ongoing discovery of progressively, and indefinitely, smaller particles and their interactions, an enterprise which expresses it as a Piety specific to scientific research.

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