Seeding liberal arts courses with science parables

As a graduate student, more than 50 years ago, I heard Isidor Rabi make a fervent appeal to cultivate common ground, shared by science and liberal arts. Ever since, in my own teaching, I’ve strived to do what he urged: “Scientists must learn to teach … in the light of the history of human thought and human effort, rather than as the geography of a universe uninhabited by mankind.”