The Strands of a Life: The Science of DNA and the Art of Education
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The Strands of a Life: The Science of DNA and the Art of Education
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The Strands of a Life: The Science of DNA and the Art of Education
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How does one interview oneself? How does one achieve distance, reverse one's perspective, see dispassionately that which surges up from within? If, as my wife Karen says with occasional dismay, I lack ego, does that make the task easier or harder? Strong egos are easier to limn, but diffuse egos may be more accessible.
Why does it only now occur to me that, born in 1920, my life is a defined segment of the twentieth century? That I am a twentieth-century man with values, perspectives, even emotions indigenous to, if not characteristic of, that era just as Samuel Johnson was an eighteenth-century man and Thomas Huxley a nineteenth-century man? Yet that thought has only just occurred to me. Perhaps because in the twentieth century, caught in the swirling tides of change, the future years always seemed so ill-defined. But now, as it draws to a close, its pattern takes form, as does that of my lifein either case, doubtless not the form one might have wished but a form imposed by the logic of chance and history.
Why does it only now occur to me that, born in 1920, my life is a defined segment of the twentieth century? That I am a twentieth-century man with values, perspectives, even emotions indigenous to, if not characteristic of, that era just as Samuel Johnson was an eighteenth-century man and Thomas Huxley a nineteenth-century man? Yet that thought has only just occurred to me. Perhaps because in the twentieth century, caught in the swirling tides of change, the future years always seemed so ill-defined. But now, as it draws to a close, its pattern takes form, as does that of my lifein either case, doubtless not the form one might have wished but a form imposed by the logic of chance and history.
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Robert L. Sinsheimer
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Robert L. Sinsheimer, “The Strands of a Life: The Science of DNA and the Art of Education,” Portal Ebook UNTAG SURABAYA, accessed March 15, 2025, https://ebook.untag-sby.ac.id/items/show/433.