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Leszek Kołakowski - Metaphysical Horror (1988)

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I, then a young and omniscient student (alas, I was soon to lose both these virtues)...

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A modern philosopher who has never once suspected himself of being a charlatan must be such a shallow mind that his work is probably not worth reading.

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What we observe is not nature itself but nature exposed to our method of questioning. Our scientific work in physics consists in asking questions about nature in the language that we possess and trying to get an answer from experiment by the means that are at our disposal.
Werner Heisenberg

Leszek Kołakowski

Leszek Kołakowski
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Born: October 23, 1927
Died: July 17, 2009 (aged 81)
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