2007년 02월 12일
코식 박사님께
Plasmid 하나 공짜로 얻어보려고 겁없이 메일을 보낸 인물의 사고가 나의 궤적을 앞지르고 있다. 뒤늦게 먼저 보낸 편지가 멋적어 너스레를 떠는 기분으로 갈겨쓰다.



Dear Dr. Kenneth S. Kosik

I sent requesting mail to you. Although you send that material or not I want to tell you I am now really feel happy reading your fantastic review papers. Specifically your two papers which were reviewed at Nat Rev Neurosci "Beyond phrenology, at last." and "Synaptic tagging -- who's it?" were really fascinating. And I am now excited there is a scientist who are interested in many aspects of science, philosohical, ethical and even religoius (yes I am strong evolutionist who think having religion is peopls's choice. But I am strongly reject the idea of creationist who want to teach those things in school. In this respect I am agree with Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould). Yes, your short letter to nature which describes the duelism was also impressive. I am now stopping my experiment to read your papers. As a experiment scientist, sometimes I feel lonley when I was talking about evolution, cognition, philosophy and history of science in front of my colleague. They are not interested in those things. But I like the words from Claude Bernard, "The experimenter who does not know what he is looking for will not understand what he finds.". Bernard always pointed out the relationship between hand and brain. Good scientist, I think should be skillful at both kinds of work, with hand and with deep thought.

Yes, I am now doing experiment everyday but I was and still am real bookworm. I've been reading lots of books realted with evolution, philosophy and history of science, for example, written by Charles Darwin, Thomas Huxley, Ernst Mayr, Theodosius Dobzhansky, John Maynard Smith, George Williams, Imanishi Kinji, Edward Wilson, Jared Diamond, Francois Jacob and Jacques Monod, Richard Dawkins, Stephen Jay Gould and Niles Eldredge, Steven Pinker, Daniel Dennett, David Buss, Stuart Kauffman, Brian Goodwin, Matt Ridley, Gregory Pence, Francisco Varela, Bjorn Lomborg, John Tooby and Leda Cosmides, etc. Nowdays I am reading about history of chemistry written by Eduard Farber "Evolution of chemistry" with a professor in another University near here. William Coleman's book"Biology in the Nineteenth Century" was so impressive, you must read it.

Sometimes I am dreaming of the life in the 19th centuries' scientist. There was no border between sciences. There was discussion and romance. Think about Bolzman's debate with Helmholz for the unfication of physics with Energitism. Think about Viena Circle's discussion about science and philosohy mixed and harmonied. whenever I imagine those things, I feel free and happy that I am standing the tradition of them.

I have one paper about "Darwinian medicine" which published in Korean language in <Korean journal of Science and Philosophy>. I am sorry not to show you that paper.

My personal story was too long. I am sorry to take a time from you. I was just happy to see a great scientist who are looking for real science in my field.

Thank you for reading this boring mail.

Best Regards,




Woo Jae Kim

"True science teaches us to doubt and to abstain from ignorance."
by 취어생 | 2007/02/12 18:28 | 잡문모음 | 트랙백


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