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Ludwig Wittgenstein

Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

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Wittgenstein suggests that people need to become aware of and appreciate the mystery and amazement in life. However, science can sometimes make people lose that sense of wonder by turning everything into routine explanations.

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