A DOMINANT CHARACTER The Radical Science and Restless Politics of J. B. S. Haldane By Samanth Subramanian
“Suffer” is the family motto of the Haldane clan, and, along with a line from Aeschylus — “We suffer into knowledge” — it is the epigraph of Samanth Subramanian’s “A Dominant Character,” a fascinating biography of the British biologist J. B. S. Haldane. In England, Haldane was a scientific celebrity as famous as Einstein. One of his contemporaries called him “the last man who might know all there was to be known.” But he lived a life of epic suffering, much of it self-inflicted, and the political dimension of his story speaks to the pain that we are living through now. (More at: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/books/review/a-dominant-character-haldane-samanth-subramanian.html ) ( https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/28/books/review/a-dominant-character-haldane-samanth-subramanian.html ) Jim Farmelant -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#798): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/798 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/76382367/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES<br />#1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message.<br />#2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived.<br />#3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/8674936/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
