In Australia, we received positive responses from scientists, men and women, with a variety of backgrounds: in applied mathematics, cell biology, environment, immunology, marine biology, marine ecology, genetics, geology, neuro-physiology, neuro-science, palaeontology, physics and quantum physics who decided to contribute to Challenging the Divide.

In the UK we were grateful for the willingness of an astronomer to let us explore her essay in Contemporary Poetry and Contemporary Science, edited by Robert Crawford, Oxford University Press.

In the USA, a Nobel-prize winning quantum chemist allowed us to include two of his essays and an astro-physicist allowed us to reprint two of his essays. See the sources for details.

We hope that the website will attract other scientists who accept the need for interdisciplinary connections between the sciences, the humanities and the arts. We hope that such developments have an impact on the approaches to subjects in the national curriculum which is mooted inevitably to develop a national Certificate of Education.