simple quote don't you think this essentially kantian or maybe hegelian view expresses a sentiment that lies at the heart of the misgivings that many have about adopting an excessively pro scientific stance almost every scientist i have ever spoken to about the nature of science believes that scientists study the world 'out there' in other words they study an objective world devoid of human emotions and meaning they find it quite difficult at first to understand that what they are really studying is the phenomena the mental representations of the world 'out there' once thus enlightened they can then perceive that their knowledge of the world 'out there' far from being objective is intimately bound up with and inseparable from their hopes fears and other emotions the world is one thing and our knowledge of it is another we ought not to imagine that our understanding of the world is the world itself james norwich however the the times article which this comment comes from is a good example of extremely pro science views a view that sees nothing wrong with the impact science has had on our world peter morrell