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[...] in an important sense, the sciences have solved the problem of communicating with one another more completely than has any human enterprise. To retell an old story, thirty-five years ago, Dirac and I were in Göttingen. He was developing the quantum theory of radiation, and I was a student. He learned that I sometimes wrote a poem, and he took me to task, saying, “In physics we try to say things that no one knew before in a way that everyone can understand, whereas in poetry... ”
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Metropolis, N., Rota, GC., Sharp, D., Oppenheimer, J.R. (1984). A World Without War. In: Metropolis, N., Rota, GC., Sharp, D., Oppenheimer, J.R. (eds) Uncommon Sense. Birkhäuser Boston. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-6735-2_12
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