I wonder if the superb generation of quantum physicists (Dirac, Heisenberg, Schrödinger, Pauli...) was an exception or the norm. If each generation has physicists like those but they're not so known it could mean there's a limit on what science can do.
I agree that some patience is called for. But I think some modesty is called for, as well.
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I don't favor modest ambitions for the future of intelligent life in the universe. As we shorten the time scale modesty must increase. I'll die in a few decades, so I doubt I'll see most interesting questions in physics settled, and I've learned to live with that.
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I have, too. And I favor devoting much of one's energies to battles that may plausibly end in victory (of some sort or other) over timescales not vastly longer than a single human lifespan. Happily, mathematics abounds, and indeed has always abounded, in such battles.
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