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<a href="http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2009/01/02/how-to-think-about-science-part-1---24-listen/">How to Think About Science, Part 18 (Listen) </a> | Ideas with Paul Kennedy | CBC Radio
Science cannot live without metaphors. The lay person can only form a
conception of a gene, or an electron, by translating the scientific idea
into an image of some kind. But we forget that our metaphors are only
metaphors at our peril, says evolutionary biologist Richard
Lewontin. Richard Lewontin joins David Cayley
to discuss the role of metaphor of science.
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