Haldane on disgust: every physical invention is blasphemy, every biological one a perversion
anderssandberg · x · 2026-11-07
Sandberg praises Haldane's astute point about people responding to biological change with disgust. The quoted page: "if every physical and chemical invention is a blasphemy, every biological invention is a perversion" — hardly one that wouldn't strike a first-time observer as indecent and unnatural. He also notes Haldane's Two Cultures-style complaint about artists' insufficient science education.
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