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In this lecture I will be principally concerned not with the present production of scientific results but with the effects of the growth of science on mankind and on man’s happiness. This is a very general question and is probably in the minds of many philosophers. I will speak about it nevertheless—because as Lévy-Leblond said, at an advanced age the physicist’s interest turns increasingly to general questions and, to some degree, they become philosophers. But they are mostly amateur philosophers and I am afraid I will omit mentioning the names of the true philosophers whose observations I may repeat.
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Wigner, E.P. (2001). Reflections on the Role and Purpose of Science. In: Mehra, J. (eds) Historical and Biographical Reflections and Syntheses. Historical, Philosophical, and Socio-Political Papers, vol B / 7. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-07791-7_59
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