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the words “prospects in the arts and sciences” mean two quite different things to me. One is prophecy: What will the scientists discover and the painters paint, what new forms will alter music, what parts of experience will newly yield to objective description? The other meaning is that of a view: What do we see when we look at the world today and compare it with the past? I am not a prophet; and I cannot very well speak to the first subject, though in many ways I should like to. I shall try to speak to the second, because there are some features of this view which seem to me so remarkable, so new and so arresting, that it may be worth turning our eyes to them; it may even help us to create and shape the future better, though we cannot foretell it.
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Metropolis, N., Rota, GC., Sharp, D., Oppenheimer, J.R. (1984). Prospects in the Arts and Sciences. 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_6
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