"DSK" wrote in message
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Gilligan wrote:
Mankind and physics will advance greatly when physics returns to its
roots of natural philosophy and away from being driven by mathematical
abstractions. Thinking will replace calculation. Truth will replace
equivalence. Simplicity will replace complexity. Understanding will
replace description. Unification will replace categorization.
Philosophers will replace scientists.


And when that happens, we'll be able to turn peas into beans!

Not exactly turning straw into gold, but a start.

Max