MAQ Magazine n. 12 / May - June 2019
Albert Szent-Györgyi
In his 1972 Letter to Science, the Nobel Laureate in Medicine, Albert Szent-Györgyi, cofounder of the American National Foundation for Cancer Research, contended that the prevailing peer review educational system is inadequate because of its inability to link science with
art. In his book The Crazy Ape, Szent-Györgyi argued that humanity “the more he [it] progresses technologically”, the more it seems to “regress psychologically and socially, until he [it] resembles his primate ancestors in a state of high schizophrenia” and “most of scientific research that is done to elevate human life serves in the end to destroy it”. Consequently, we can postulate that the political mathematical disease has been inherited from our tribal ancestors.
Schafer and Doyle provide scientific evidence to justify that conclusion. In 2013, the European Space Agency Planck Observatory demonstrated that the first light of