Footnote Physicist

          “And, now, Socrates, there bursts upon him that wondrous vision which is the very soul of the           beauty he has toiled so long for.  It is an everlasting loveliness which neither comes nor goes,           which neither flowers nor fades, for such beauty is the same on every hand, the same then as now,           here as there, this way as that way, the same to every worshipper as it is to every other... subsisting           of itself and by itself in an eternal oneness, while every lovely thing partakes of it in such sort that,           however much the parts may wax and wane, it will be neither more nor less, but still the same           inviolable whole.”           – Plato I         ...