![]() Language, I think, is the mediator of human values and human expectations into our descriptions of nature. ![]() What does rhetoric have to do with science, I thought, when I first heard about you?ĮVELYN FOX KELLER: Right. Keller teaches in the department of rhetoric. Why is this so, she wondered? Trained since then as a theoretical physicist, she has taught mathematics and done research in mathematical biology, but it is her work on the history of science, her book, Reflections on Gender and Science, and her biography of the geneticist Barbara McClintock that brought me to the University of California at Berkeley where Dr. ![]() Not only because most scientists were men, but because the language of science itself reflected masculine metaphors and values. ![]() BILL MOYERS: When Evelyn Fox Keller set out in the 1950s to be a scientist, she discovered it was a man’s world. ![]()
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