"As science advances, it seems to have a sort of scorched earth policy. The advancing army is full of enthusiasm for its advancing into the unknown, and the unknown is always exciting. If it glances back at the territory it has overrun, it sees little but dullness, the dullness of what seems to be completely known, with little prospect of adding to that knowledge by a deeper understanding" (J.L.Synge)
Posted by mozart at March 7, 2005 11:20 AM