[Thatcherite]

The day science has all the answers will be a sad one.

Physicists were actually quite worried about a hundred years ago that they were coming to the end of physical discoveries... Everything had been explained, just a couple of loose ends to tie up and physics would be finished... Hilarious in retrospect.

[CarolinaGuitarman]

"Physicists were actually quite worried about a hundred years ago that they were coming to the end of physical discoveries... Everything had been explained, just a couple of loose ends to tie up and physics would be finished... Hilarious in retrospect."

That's just physicists being physicists! Wacky bunch. :)

[moog]

Physicists were actually quite worried about a hundred years ago that they were coming to the end of physical discoveries... Everything had been explained, just a couple of loose ends to tie up and physics would be finished... Hilarious in retrospect.

Someone said in the 1890's or so that there was nothing left to discover. Do you know who?