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Myths and science fulfill a similar function: they both provide human beings with a representation of the world and of the forces…
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Evolution is a tinkerer.
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The game was that of continually inventing a possible world, or a piece of a possible world, and then of comparing it…
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The Place of No Shadows, in Isaac Asimovs Science Fiction Magazine (1990) In our Universe, matter is arranged in a hierarchy of…
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In today’s vastly expanded scientific enterprise, obsessed with impact factors and competition, we will need much more night science to unveil the…
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For me, this world of questions and the provisional, this chase after an answer that was always put off to the next…
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Contrary to what I once thought, scientific progress did not consist simply in observing, in accurately formulating experimental facts and drawing up…
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I had turned my anxiety into my profession.
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