Saul Dushman Quote

From Archimedes to Newton and to Einstein there has been a continuity of effort to attain that ideal which we call scientific truth. The story of this growth of ideas and understanding is one that is not only extremely interesting but also inspiring since it has revealed such potentialities of the human mind to conceive almost transcendental ideas which may be tested by experiment and observation.

Fundamentals of atomic physics (1951), preface