"Science does not aim to cover exhaustively the whole of reality, but to construct systems and concepts which will perhaps — and it is a big perhaps — allow man to act on the world."
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Alain Robbe-Grillet
Alain Robbe-Grillet (18 August 1922 – 18 February 2008) was a French writer, critic and film-maker.
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