Fundamental problems might always be with us...‏

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«There are so many unsolved problems in physics.

There is so much that we do not know;

our theories are far from adequate.»

Our talk veered at once to the problem

of how often in the history of science

great questions seem to be resolved,

only to reappear in new form.

Einstein expressed the view that perhaps

this was a characteristic of physics,

and suggested that some of the fundamental problems

might always be with us...

[On Sunday morning in April, 1955,

two weeks before the death of Albert Einstein,

I. Bernard Cohen sat and talked with him

about the history of scientific thought

and great men in the physics of the past.]