disjunction

Certainly I am in love ... and therefore must be careful ... after all one is in love only once. Nevertheless, the god of love is blind and if one is clever one can delude him. The trick is to be as receptive in regard to impressions as possible, to know the impression you are making and the impression each girl makes on you. In this way you can even be in love with many at the same time, because with each particular girl you are differently in love. Loving just one is too little; loving all is being superficial; knowing yourself and loving as many as possible, letting your soul hide all the powers of love in itself, so that each gets its particular nourishment while consciousness nevertheless embraces it all - that is enjoyment, that is living. 

We need to stop treating ‘science’ as if it were a single monolithic entity, a solid kingdom embattled against rival kingdoms. On the one hand, the various sciences differ hugely. Ecology and anthropology are not at all like physics, nor indeed is biology, and this is not disastrous because they don’t have to be like it. And on the other hand we need to stop treating the entity called ‘science’ as an expanding empire, destined one day to take over the whole intellectual world. Out currently difficulties about the environment and about human rights are large problems that need cooperative work from every kind of intellectual discipline, from ethics to computing, from anthropology to law, and from soil science to Russian history. The intense academic specialisation that prevails today makes this operation hard enough already without adding the extra obstacles imposed by tribal warfare.