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My Colleagues In Elementary Particle Theory In Many Lands [and I] Are Driven By The Usual Insatiable Curiosity Of The Scientist, And Our Work Is A Delightful Game. I Am Frequently Astonished That It So Often Results In Correct Predictions Of Experimental Results. How Can It Be That Writing Down A Few Simple And Elegant Formulae, Like Short Poems Governed By Strict Rules Such As Those Of The Sonnet Or The Waka, Can Predict Universal Regularities Of Nature?

You Know, There Was A Time, Just Before I Started To Study Physical Science, When Astronomers Thought That Systems Such As We Have Here In The Solar System Required A Rare Triple Collision Of Stars

In Our Work, We Are Always Between Scylla And Charybdis; We May Fail To Abstract Enough, And Miss Important Physics, Or We May Abstract Too Much And End Up With Fictitious Objects In Our Models Turning Into Real Monsters That Devour Us.

But I Don't Actually Adopt The Point Of View That Our Subjective Impression Of Free Will, Which Is A Kind Of Indeterminacy Behavior, Comes From Quantum Mechanical Indeterminacy.

Modern Language Must Be Older Than The Cave Paintings And Cave Engravings And Cave Sculptures And Dance Steps In The Soft Clay In The Caves In Western Europe, In The Aurignacian Period Some 35,000 Years Ago, Or Earlier. I Can't Believe They Did All Those Things And Didn't Also Have A Modern Language.