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| powerfully with our vision of what lies at the core of science: | | powerfully with our vision of what lies at the core of science: |
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− | <blockquote>‘The famous question at the roots of [[metaphysics]] is: “Why should there not be nothing?” ’ | + | <p>‘The famous question at the roots of [[metaphysics]] is: “Why should there not be nothing?” ’ |
| (152) ‘Today, mathematical models proclaim access to the origins of the present [[universe]]. | | (152) ‘Today, mathematical models proclaim access to the origins of the present [[universe]]. |
| Molecular [[biology]] may have in reach an unravelling of the thread whose beginning is that | | Molecular [[biology]] may have in reach an unravelling of the thread whose beginning is that |
| of life. Nothing in these prodigious conjectures disarms, let alone elucidates, the fact that | | of life. Nothing in these prodigious conjectures disarms, let alone elucidates, the fact that |
| the world is when it might not have been, the fact that we are in it when we might, when | | the world is when it might not have been, the fact that we are in it when we might, when |
− | we could not have been.’ </blockqoute> | + | we could not have been.’</p> |
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| But what is science? In Steiner’s terms it is men and women extending the cortesia of welcome to | | But what is science? In Steiner’s terms it is men and women extending the cortesia of welcome to |
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| matter and spirit, between man and “the other” ’. (227) The echoes with our view of science are | | matter and spirit, between man and “the other” ’. (227) The echoes with our view of science are |
| loud and clear. | | loud and clear. |
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| ==Section 5== | | ==Section 5== |
| Although structured in three parts, Real Presences in [[fact]] consists of three movements and a coda | | Although structured in three parts, Real Presences in [[fact]] consists of three movements and a coda |