Nicola Cabibbo
Nicola Cabibbo
Nicola Cabibbo was an Italian physicist best known for his work on the weak interaction, particularly his introduction of the Cabibbo angle. Interested in science from a young age, he studied physics at the Sapienza University of Rome, graduating in 1958 with a thesis completed under Bruno Touschek.
"Science that abdicates its cultural values risks being perceived as an extension of technology, an instrument in the hands of political or economic power. Humanity that disavows science risks falling into the hands of superstition."
"Science is incapable of supplying answers to ultimate questions about why things exist and what their purpose is."
