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The indefinite extension of scientific knowledge faces two kinds of grave obstacles. The first one is of emotional nature. Society at large may lose interest in the progress of science and may cease to support it. Also an aversion may develop in the minds of young people toward the devotion of their lives to increasing the knowledge of man. The second obstacle which may develop is of cognitive nature. It may arise from the finiteness of the capacity of the human mind and human intelligence. The human intelligence may not be able to cope with the problems which the future development of science will present. The two obstacles will be discussed in some detail below.
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Wigner, E.P. (1995). The Problems, Future and Limits of Science. In: Mehra, J. (eds) Philosophical Reflections and Syntheses. The Collected Works of Eugene Paul Wigner, vol B / 6. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-78374-6_46
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