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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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(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
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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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