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The many, rapidly occurring changes that have resulted from science and technology during the 20th century are a necessary backdrop to a review of the science policy under President Reagan. During the past 60 years I have been part of two revolutions in the physical sciences. The first wiped out the boundaries between physics and chemistry and produced an important philosophical change: the inanimate world can no longer be viewed as a machine that runs a predetermined course. The contradictions among various observations of the physical world cannot be resolved unless one accepts that the future is forever in the making.
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Teller, E. (1991). Science, Technology, and Policy in the 1980s. In: Schmergel, G. (eds) US Foreign Policy in the 1990s. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-11220-3_19
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