Abstract
Abstract In the education of a physicist, we recount the bold voyages of great explorers-Newton and Einstein, Faraday and Bohr-in search of new laws of nature. They found and charted the continents on which we have built our cities of the mind and of art. Does anyone really suppose that similar vast and fertile territories are still waiting to be discovered and colonized? The unaccustomed rules that govern black holes and quasars in the cosmic deeps affect our lives no more than the icy crags of the Himalayas or the conjunctions of the planets ... Think of physics simply as the ‘fundamental’ science and it is oversubscribed almost to bankruptcy. But define it as the science whose aim is to describe natural phenomena in the most mathematical or numerical language, and you will understand its past and have confidence in its future ... The task of the modern physicist is to determine the mathematically comprehensible characteristics of the natural world and of human artifacts ...
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