More importantly, the history of science can make your work seem more worthwhile to you. As a scientist, you're probably not going to get rich. Your friends and relatives probably won't understand what you're doing. And if you work in a field like elementary particle physics, you won't even have the satisfaction of doing something that is immediately useful. But you can get great satisfaction by recognizing that your work in science is a part of history.

by S. Weinberg who had just left us a week ago.

https://www.nature.com/articles/426389a?fbclid=IwAR1u0owFpRdPRiKlyKYIEru4rFcRvaDj9PeXlK0ei0HX1IFVXvM3PvlkEeA

When I received my undergraduate degree — about a hundred years ago — the physics literature seemed to me a vast, unexplored ocean, every part of which I had to chart before beginning any research of my own. How could I do anything without knowing everything that had already been done? Fortunately, in my first year of graduate school, I had the good luck to fall into the hands of senior physicists who insisted, over my anxious objections, that I must start doing research, and pick up what I needed to know as I went along. It was sink or swim. To my surprise, I found that this works. I managed to get a quick PhD — though when I got it I knew almost nothing about physics. But I did learn one big thing: that no one knows everything, and you don't have to.

氦的發現與回收 氦是 1868 年天文學家觀測日食時的太陽光譜線時,意外發現的新元素,以太陽神 Helios 命名為 Helium ,也能突顯氦元素發現的曲折歷史。 氦元素質量比大氣主要氣體分子氮和氧輕很多,只要從石油或岩層溢出,就能輕易的飄到地球大氣層上方。雖然只有少數地表...