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If Alpha [the Fine-structure Constant] Were Bigger Than It Really Is, We Should Not Be Able To Distinguish Matter From Ether [the Vacuum, Nothingness], And Our Task To Disentangle The Natural Laws Would Be Hopelessly Difficult. The Fact However That Alpha Has Just Its Value 1/137 Is Certainly No Chance But Itself A Law Of Nature. It Is Clear That The Explanation Of This Number Must Be The Central Problem Of Natural Philosophy.

It Is True That Many Scientists Are Not Philosophically Minded And Have Hitherto Shown Much Skill And Ingenuity But Little Wisdom.

All Attempts To Adapt Our Ethical Code To Our Situation In The Technological Age Have Failed.

The Belief In A Single Truth Is The Root Cause For All Evil In The World.

The Difficulty Involved In The Proper And Adequate Means Of Describing Changes In Continuous Deformable Bodies Is The Method Of Differential Equations. ... They Express Mathematically The Physical Concept Of Contiguous Action. Einstein's Theory Of Relativity