Epilogue

Abstract

Almost all real world phenomena are very difficult to understand. To counter this the human mind invented mathematical or other models to throw an intelligible bridge between the world and our understanding of reality. These representations are necessary to every scientific discipline. Yet those who believe that the appearance of a new model ‘ipso facto’ widens our knowledge and narrows the unknowns are often wrong. Pushing back frontiers usually only leads to the realization that the world is wider than we thought.

[...]divitiae enim apud sapientem virum in servitute sunt, apud stultum in imperio; [...] (Seneca, De vita beata)