Heisenberg, Max Plank and Einstein, they all agreed that science could not solve the mystery of the universe.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Physicists are working on the Big Bang, and one day they may or may not solve it.
The study and knowledge of the universe would somehow be lame and defective were no practical results to follow.
As neither of these two great research scientists was able to find the solution to the mystery, it is small wonder that none of their contemporaries were able to do so either.
During this time I had the singular good fortune of being able to discuss the problem constantly with Einstein. Some experiments done at Einstein's suggestion yielded no decisively new result.
It would be difficult to discover the truth about the universe if we refused to consider anything that might be true.
No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.
Though many have tried, no one has ever yet explained away the decisive fact that science, which can do so much, cannot decide what it ought to do.
For years, my early work with Roger Penrose seemed to be a disaster for science. It showed that the universe must have begun with a singularity, if Einstein's general theory of relativity is correct. That appeared to indicate that science could not predict how the universe would begin.
It is astonishing that human brains, which evolved to cope with the everyday world, have been able to grasp the counterintuitive mysteries of the cosmos and the quantum.
Bose and Einstein had triggered low-temperature experiments that have led to the discovery of new matter. I owe my work and my Nobel to them.