Quote #333 There Is No Natural Phenomenon That Is Comparable With The Sudden And Apparently Accidentally Timed Development Of Science

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There is no natural phenomenon that is comparable with the sudden and
apparently accidentally timed development of science, except perhaps the
condensation of a super-saturated gas or the explosion of some unpredictable
explosives. Will the fate of science show some similarity to one of these
phenomena?.

-- Wigner, Eugene P. (1902-1995)

[ in an essay ``The Limits of Science'' intended to estimate them,
originally in Procs. of the _Amer. Philosophical Soc._ v. 94, #5 (1950). ]

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