Science and scientists in his dark materials by Philip Pullman

The aim of this article is to analyse the vision of science and scientists presented in his dark materials by Philip Pullman. In the first part of the text, the author concerns on the relations between science and the Church in the mentioned trilogy, focusing on the difference in technological development between Lyra’s and Will’s worlds. The second part of the paper focuses on the scientists themselves and the explorers described in His Dark Materials: unethical characters represented by Marisa Coulter and Lord Asriel, who are portrayed in contrary to ’noble scientists’– John Parry and Dr. Mary Malone. In the last part of the text the ideas of multiverse and Dust are analysed. The whole article focuses especially on the topic of how Pullman unites the typical scientific issues with the elements of philosophical and theological nature.