The Most Wonderful Words in Science
If you could fast-forward some 1,000 years and peek into a college science textbook from the year 3000, what would you see? I doubt you'd find many of our current theories still in there. Today, the Standard Model of particle physics and Albert Einstein's general relativity seem like twin pinnacles of human intellectual achievement. Tomorrow, they might be cast into history's dustbin, relegated to mere footnotes alongside old ideas about the Earth-centred solar system and the deterministic Universe. It would be a humbling sight and a tremendously reassuring one.