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The aim of this book is to uncover the relationship between man and his Universe, to seek to discover his present position, and to draw some conclusions about his future.
Pluralites non es ponenda sine necessitatae. (Entities must not be needlessly multiplied.)
W. Ockham (1280–1349)
The essential mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.
The human mind is not capable of grasping the Universe. We are like a little child entering a huge library. The walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. The child knows that someone must have written these books. It does not know who or how. It does not understand the languages in which they are written. But the child notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books — a mysterious order which it does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.
A. Einstein (1879–1955)
Nature is not economical of structures — only of principles.
A. Salam (1926– )
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Taube, M. (1985). Matter and Energy. The Interplay of Elementary Particles and Elementary Forces. In: Evolution of Matter and Energy on a Cosmic and Planetary Scale. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-95453-5_1
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