<p>"What are you, where did you come from, and whither are you bound?"?the question which from Homer's days has been put to the wayfarer in strange lands?is likewise the all-absorbing question which man is ever asking of the universe of which he is himself so tiny yet so wondrous a part. From the earliest times the ultimate purpose of all scientific research has been to elicit fragmentary or partial responses to this question, and philosophy...