How To Be An Agnostic
Illus. 2.2: Cosmologists have always been humbled by the vastness of the
universe they study.
language and become familiar with the characters in which it is
written.’ That language is maths and geometry, he continues,
‘without which means it is humanly impossible to comprehend
a single word.’ From this arises a further observation commonly
felt among physicists, the sense that mathematics is not created,
it is discovered. In his essay, Wigner ponders what that might
mean, and in particular the meaning that might be drawn from
the fact that human beings can discover laws of nature, and