I am very astonished that the scientific picture of the real world around me is very deficient. It gives a lot of factual information, puts all our experience in a magnificently consistent order, but it is ghastly silent about all and sundry that is really near to our heart, that really matters to us.
— Erwin Schrodinger Modern

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Science and Humanism: Physics in Our Time

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1951

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