The delights of science and mathematics—their revelations of natural beauty and harmony, their visions of thing to come, and the joy of discovery in itself, the light and shadow it casts on the mystery dance of mind and nature—are too profound, and too important, to be left to scientists and mathematicians alone.

They belong to the cultural heritage of the entire world, and to know something about them is to be acquainted with the finest new achievements of the human mind.