We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made.

Do you know how big snakes get? Or how many grains of sand are in the deserts? Or what lurks at the bottoms of the oceans’ floors?”…”No.””Well, if you can’t answer those simple scientific queries,...

Today, nothing is unusual about a scientific discovery’s being followed soon after by a technical application: The discovery of electrons led to electronics; fission led to nuclear energy. But before the 1880’s, science played almost...

It is not easy to convey, unless one has experienced it, the dramatic feeling of sudden enlightenment that floods the mind when the right idea finally clicks into place. One immediately sees how many previously...

discovery” of mine, but rather something that had always been there and that I had chanced to pick up.