"From the outset, however, this whole controversy has been plagued by tacit assumptions, very often of a philosophical rather than a physical character."

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Our universe cannot even be stated symbolically. And this touches us all more directly than one might suppose. For example, artists, who have been very little influenced by social systems, have always responded instinctively to latent assumptions about the shape of the universe. The incomprehensibility of our new cosmos seems to me, ultimately, to be the reason for the chaos of modern art.

— Kenneth Clark