Seeing The Invisible

摘要

In a lecture given at the University of Chicago in 1894, the world-renowned physicist Albert Michelson is alleged to have said: "While it is never safe to affirm that the future of physical science has no marvels in store even more astonishing than those of the past, it seems probable that most of the grand underlying principles have been firmly established and that further advances are to be sought chiefly in the rigorous application of these principles to all the phenomena which come under our notice. ... The future truths of physical science are to be looked for in the sixth place of decimals."