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Parker J. Palmer
(28 Feb 1939 - )
American author, educator and lecturer whose nine books record his interests in education, community, leadership, spirituality and social change. The titles include The Courage to Teach and Healing the Heart of Democracy.
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Science Quotes by Parker J. Palmer (3 quotes)
No scientist knows the world merely by holding it at arm’s length: if we ever managed to build the objectivist wall between the knower and the known, we could know nothing except the wall itself.
— Parker J. Palmer
In The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life (1998), 54.
Science requires an engagement with the world, a live encounter between the knower and the known.
— Parker J. Palmer
In The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life (1998), 54.
We say that knowing begins in our intrigue about some subject, but that intrigue is the result of the subject’s action upon us: geologists are people who hear rocks speak, historians are people who hear the voices of the long dead, writers are people who hear the music of words.
— Parker J. Palmer
In The Courage to Teach: Exploring the Inner Landscape of a Teacher’s Life (1998), 105.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
