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Man, it will be objected, is a living being, and therefore belongs
in the first place to the domain of the biologist; but he is also a
thinking being, and therefore belongs to the psychologist; in his
evolutionary setting, he is the concern of the palaeontologist; but
he is also a being capable of philosophizing, capable of artistic
and religious feelings, and so comes within the province of the
philosopher, the artist, and the theologian. But what on earth is a
physicist doing in this company? What does he know about man, since
man is not his special field of research? If I must make my
apologies for daring to come out of the cave in which I seemed to
be confined - my professional pigeon-hole, so to speak - I am more
than willing to do so. This book, I admit, is the exact opposite of
a specialist work. I admit moreover - even if I am to be condemned
on this count - that I am particularly glad my work is not like
that of a specialist. Jean Emile Charon was a French nuclear
physicist, author of over 20 books on physics, scientific
philosophy, and computer science.
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