Italo Calvino quote: although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our ...

although science interests me just because of its efforts to escape from anthropomorphic knowledge, I am nonetheless convinced that our imagination cannot be anything but anthropomorphic.

~ Italo Calvino ~

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