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    How Science Can Learn From Writing That Is “Not Even Wrong”

    by Jim Davies May 25, 2015 5 minutes

    “…when you gaze long into an abyss the abyss also gazes into you.” –Nietzsche

    For some people, this quote is very evocative. It feels important, and beautiful. Others feel like it doesn’t mean anything at all, because the idea of a deep hole looking at something is absurd. Many people have both reactions. What are we to make of passages like this?

    By the middle of the 20th century, seemed to have split in two. The so-called analytic philosophers wrote in a way that was intended to be clear and unambiguous—almost an extension of the natural sciences. Flowery prose was discouraged. Continental philosophy, on the other hand, allowed itself to be more poetic and ambiguous, and had an approach more with history, society, and the arts. Other

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