![]() But 'impossibility' is not only about science. Only those cultures for whom there existed a belief that there was a distinction between the possible and the impossible provided natural breeding grounds for scientific progress. The incontrovertible evidence that Nature is governed by reliable 'laws' allows us to separate the possible from the impossible. Yet, paradoxically, science is only possible because some things are impossible. Scientists like to show that things widely held to be impossible are in fact entirely possible philosophers, by contrast, are more inclined to demonstrate that things widely regarded as perfectly feasible are in fact impossible. PHILIP GUEDALLA Both scientists and philosophers are much concerned with impossibilities. OXFORD 1998 Preface The Preface is the most important part of the book.BARROW Astronomy Centre University of Sussex OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS ![]() ![]() KURT GĂ–DEL In memory of Roger Tayler Impossibility The Limits of Science and the Science of Limits JOHN D. The meaning of the world is the separation of wish and fact. ![]()
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