Richard Lewontin
CBC Radio's Ideas: How to Think About Science
In recent years, historians, sociologists, philosophers and sometimes scientists themselves have begun to ask fundamental questions about how the institution of science is structured and how it knows what it knows. David Cayley talks to some of the leading lights of this new field of study in this special series for CBC Radio's Ideas.
Richard Lewontin
Wed Apr 23 20:00:00 EDT 2008
Science cannot live without metaphors. The lay person can only form a conception of a gene, or an electron, by translating the scientific idea into an image of some kind. But we forget that our metaphors are only metaphors at our peril, says evolutionary biologist Richard Lewontin.
Richard Lewontin joins David Cayley to discuss the role of metaphor of science. 
