Methodology and Aesthetic Content in Natural Science

The progress of physics during and since World War II has provided an example of almost unparalled achievement in large-scale applications—atomic fission, space-rockets and the rest. In this advance, both classical and quantum principles have been involved, though the former have tended to be somewhat overlooked; so much so occasionally that promising research workers in such fields have been hard to obtain. And this in spite of the amount of time and energy devoted to fundamentals at the universities.