Abstract
In his Rede Lecture at Cambridge, in May 1959, C. P. Snow describes two wars: one in the late nineteenth century between religion and science, and the other in the second half of the twentieth century between the sciences and humanities.1 In a recent article in Science titled "Deconstructing the Science Wars by Reconstructing an Old Mold," Stephen Jay Gould quotes Snow's article and attempts to find a "golden mean," or the aurea mediocritus of Horace and Aristotle for the undeclared war between the sciences and the humanities.2 The former represents all working scientists that generally uphold the objective and progressive nature of scientific knowledge, dubbed "realists," and the latter, all of the humanities and social sciences, where postmodernists regard all claims to truth to be culturally embedded, including science. In fact, the truth claims in science are considered as social constructs with their own conventions and arbitrariness.