The PowerPlant

But one day solitude will make you weary, one day your pride will bend and your courage break. One day you will cry: ' i am alone' ! And one day you will no longer see what is exalted in you and what is base in you, you will see all too closely; your sublimity itself will make you afraid, as if it were a phantom. One day you will cry: Everything is false!' These are emotions that seek to kill the solitary, if they do not succeed,........"A new conception: Whatever fundamental units the world is put together from, they are more delicate, more fugitive, more startling than we catch in the butterfly net of our senses."...... " As we fix our sight on the future and anticipate all the wonders yet in store for us, we should also reflect back and marvel at the journey we have taken so far. The search for the fundamental laws of the universe is a distinctly human drama, one that has strecthed the mind and enriched the........ Einstein's vivid description of his own quest to understand gravity -"the years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exaustion, and final emeregence into the light"- encompasses surely the whole human struggle. We are all, each in our own way, seekers of the truth, and we each long for an answer for why we are here. As we collectively scale the mountain of explanation, each generation stands firmly on the shoulders of the previous, bravely reaching for the peak. Whether any of our descendants will ever take in the view from the summit and gaze out on the vast and elegant universe with a perspective of infinite clarity, we cannot predict. But as each generation climbs a little higher, we realize jacob bronowski's pronouncement that " in every age there is a turning point, a new way of seeing and asserting the coherence of the world." " And as our generation marvels at our new view of the universe- our new way of asserting the worlds coherence- we are fullfilling our part, contributing our rung to the human ladder reaching for the stars."