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Reveal their purpose? Reveal our purpose?
The universe still seems so complex and beyond our grasp that a true understanding of all acting forces and their effects may be beyond the capacity of the human brain, but such possible limitations have not kept us from making huge strides which once must have been beyond imagination. Perhaps such limitations merely affect our speed of advance and not its scope. Perhaps we merely lack sufficient information which we must attempt to obtain by further experimentation. 42 R. P. SHUTT The apparatus needed for experimentation in particle physics is large, complex, and expensive; it is a fact of nature that the "smaller" a particle is to be explored, the greater is the energy necessary to probe for it, produce it, and study it.
Neither can fast solutions be forced by means of direct application of large amounts of money which on first sight seems most easily converted to material benefits. Money in however large amounts cannot directly affect any of the mentioned undesirable human characteristics—in fact, it may reinforce them. " This has been shown on numerous occasions in history. Money, however, can be used to promote education which seems to be by far the most promising method for solving many or all of our problems.