Interesting...Just switched on the radio, and heard Strauss's Don Quixote. I listened & thought: "I agree with much of what this cellist does. It's not me, tho'; I play it differently. Who can it be?' I looked it up; it was- me + @mn_orchestra /De Waart in 1990! Does one change?
A crucial point, though, is that we are not alone in our struggle to solve the problems that confront us. We humans learn from each other, and tend to preserve, study, and build on the breakthroughs of our predecessors. Wisdom accumulates. We have come a long way since Newton.
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It has been fascinating communicating with you, but when one contemplates the vast spaces of Sibelius's Fourth Symphony or the Milky Way, I'm not sure we've come that far at all.
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Speaking as a mathematical physicist, I can tell you that we have come a very long way indeed. We now know how and why the stars shine. We know how many there are, what they're made of, how they formed, how they develop, and how and when they will die. Far beyond Newton.
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