This article is based on a lecture that the President of the Royal Society of New South Wales was invited to deliver at Warrane College, University New South Wales on Wednesday, 17 April 2013. It examines the impact of humanism, perhaps the most influential social movement of the last half millennium. A number of problems with the humanist approach are identified and emphasises the need to encourage to “Renaissance thinkers” who can engage across all disciplines of science, art, literature and philosophy so that a wide range of perspectives and worldviews can be engaged to solve the unprecedented problems of the 21st century. The Royal Society of NSW can provide a forum for Renaissance thought.
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