Dr. Wai Chee Dimok’s lecture has allowed me to consider the potential intersections that exist between science and literature. Dr. Dimok suggested that the potential failures of scientists in inspiring people to understand the impacts of climate change lies in their inability to express emotional significance. She suggested that the lack of emotion in science makes climate change unbelievable for the common member of society. Literature provides the platform for the unbelievable aspects of climate change to be portrayed with emotional relevance and impact. The role of the humanities in scientific development of knowledge lies in the ability to encourage scientists to further establish the humanistic qualities of thought in subjective fact. The scientific method from question and hypothesis to result and conclusion must in turn have elements of emotion and social quality to encourage valuable and necessary change in structured culture.
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