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Three centuries ago

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the great English scientist Sir wrote

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"I seem to have been only like a boy playing at the sea shore.."

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"..while the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me."

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Today once again we are like children playing on the seashore

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But the great ocean of truth is no longer undiscovered

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We have unlocked the secrets of matter, the atom,

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we have unraveled the molecule of life - DNA,

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and we have created a form of artificial intelligence - the computer.

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The discovery of the fundamental laws of nature in the 20th century

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will open up unparalleled possibilities for the 21st.