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The Possible and the Actual (1982)
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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 that are supposed to govern it. They both fix the limits of what is considered as possible.
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And one of the deepest, one of the most general functions of living organisms is to look ahead, to produce future as Paul Valéry put it.
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For science, there are many possible worlds; but the interesting one is the world that exists and has already shown itself to be at work for a long time. Science attempts to confront the possible with the actual.
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Good authors, too, who once knew better words Now only use four-letter words Writing prose — Anything goes.
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Born:
June 17, 1920
Died:
April 19, 2013
(aged 92)
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