As mentioned in a post not so long ago, Rachel Carson believed in "Silent Spring" that DDT represented an attempt to control nature. Which she abhored. A book about a fascinating friendship between a genius physicist, Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli, and Carl Jung, reveals that the physicst thought physics also represented an attempt at control. Pauli in a letter wrote:
Why [do] we in physics explore nature? Alchemy says, "in order to redeem ourselves," as expressed through the production of the Lapis Philosophorum [the philosopher's stone]. Formulated in Jungian terms, this would be the production of a "consciousness of the self"…Now this is not only light, but also dark, and must as a totality also contain "the will to power over nature," which I interpret as a kind of evil backside of the natural sciences, which cannot be eliminated.*
Is this obvious? I persist in seeing the idealism in science, perhaps unreasonably.
[*from Pauli and Jung: The Meeting of Two Great Minds, by David Lindorff]
Kit Stolz 