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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.” 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.
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Wigner, E.P. (1995). The Limits of Science. In: Mehra, J. (eds) Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses. The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, vol B / 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78374-6_40
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