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we live in an unusual world, marked by very great and irreversible changes that occur within the span of a man’s life. We live in a time where our knowledge and understanding of the world of nature grows wider and deeper at an unparalleled rate; and where the problems of applying this knowledge to man’s needs and hopes are new, and only a little illuminated by our past history.
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Metropolis, N., Rota, GC., Sharp, D., Oppenheimer, J.R. (1984). On Science and Culture. 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_10
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