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The Limits of Science |
| Section: NATURAL SCIENCE / SCIENCE ESSAY |
| Author: Eugene P. Wigner |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 4,671 Words, 26,491 Characters |
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The present discussion is not put forward with the usual pride of the scientist who feels that he can make an addition, however small, to a problem which has aroused his and his colleagues' interest. Rather, it is a speculation of a kind which all of us feel a great reluctance to undertake: much like the speculation on the ultimate fate of somebody who is very dear to us. It is a speculation on the future of science itself, whether it will share, at some very distant future, the fate of "Alles was entsteht ist wert dass es zu Grunde geht." (All that exists is worthy of passing away.) Naturally, in such a speculation one wishes to assume the best of conditions for one's subject and disregard the danger of an accident that may befall it, however real that danger may be.
The Growth of...
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...iving in the heroic age of science, in the epoch in which the individual's abstract knowledge of nature, and, we may hope, also of himself, is increasing more rapidly and perhaps to a higher level than it ever has before or will afterwards. It is uncomfortable to believe that our ideals may pass as the Round Table's illusions disappeared. Still, we live in the heroic age of these ideals. vbcrlf
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