<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:12pt"><div style="RIGHT: auto"><SPAN style="RIGHT: auto">The sad thing about da Vinci is that much of his work had to await rediscovery centuries later. (Of course, he's not alone in suffering from this.)</SPAN></div>
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<DIV style="BORDER-BOTTOM: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-LEFT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px; LINE-HEIGHT: 0; MARGIN: 5px 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 0px; PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; HEIGHT: 0px; FONT-SIZE: 0px; BORDER-TOP: #ccc 1px solid; BORDER-RIGHT: #ccc 1px solid; PADDING-TOP: 0px" class=hr contentEditable=false readonly="true"></DIV><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">From:</SPAN></B> Natasha Vita-More <natasha@natasha.cc><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">To:</SPAN></B> 'ExI chat list' <extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org><BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Sent:</SPAN></B> Thursday, July 28, 2011 10:19 AM<BR><B><SPAN style="FONT-WEIGHT: bold">Subject:</SPAN></B> Re: [ExI] The difference between Discovery and Design.<BR></FONT><BR>David Lubkin wrote:<BR><BR>"Sagan was an okay scientist. He was far from top tier."<BR><BR>True, but one has to admit _Science as a Candle in the Dark_ is a mighty<BR>fine title for a book. <BR><BR>"If you want a soaring
talent who is both a top scientist and an excellent<BR>writer, my best candidates are probably Lynn Margulis (who, btw, was Sagan's<BR>ex) and Linus Pauling, although there are other names, like E. O. Wilson,<BR>that lurk in my hindbrain."<BR><BR>Margulis yes! I adore her. It does not matter who she is married to or was<BR>married to. She stands on her own. I am related to Pauling, but the gene<BR>pool did not go in my direction. E.O. Wilson's _Consilience_ is mighty fine<BR>as well.<BR><BR>But none of them compare to the insights of da Vinci (who was not a<BR>scientist, per se) AND, this is where the issue of discovery and design<BR>meet. <BR><BR>Natasha<VAR id=yui-ie-cursor></VAR></DIV></DIV></div></body></html>