The 17th-century German mathematician and philosopher, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, is my philosophical hero. I am proud (but not quite happy) that I share with this great philosopher at least one feature. He was a master in spreading, not to say dissipating, his genius into too many fields of interest. If he had a greater ability…
Limits of Language and Common Sense We all are realists. If we were not, the surrounding world would soon destroy us. We must take seriously information given us by our senses. If, when crossing the street, we looked for extrasensory inspiration instead of watching the traffic lights, we would have been very quickly eliminated from…
People often say that physics is a science of matter or of material world, but while most books on theoretical physics contain lots of mathematics, few mention anything about matter. This is because physics develops by constructing mathematical models of the world and then by confronting them with empirical results. One may say that the…