Chapter One: Looking For The Big Picture
CHAPTER ONE: LOOKING FOR THE BIG PICTURE
1. Dorothy L. Sayers, Les origines du roman policier (Hurstpierpoint, UK: Dorothy L. Sayers Society, 2003).
2. Ibid., 14.
3. William Whewell, The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences, 2 vols. (London: John W. Parker, 1847), 2:36: “The facts are known but they are insulated and unconnected.… The pearls are there but they will not hang together until some one provides the string.”
4. See Peter R. Dear, The Intelligibility of Nature: How Science Makes Sense of the World (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2008).
5. Edna St. Vincent Millay, Collected Sonnets, rev., exp. ed. (New York: Harper Perennial, 1988), 140.
6. Richard Dawkins, River out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (London: Phoenix, 1995), 133.
7. Peter B. Medawar, The Limits of Science (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985), 66.
8. Richard Dawkins, A Devil’s Chaplain: Selected Writings (London: Weiden-field & Nicolson, 2003), 34.
9. Bertrand Russell, The Impact of Science upon Society (London: Routledge, 1998), 97.