Almost twenty years ago, one of our distinguished scientific colleagues, the late Jacob Bronowski, orchestrated a litany of remarks by other mathematicians and physicists to the effect that no system of theoretical constructs dealing with the universe, or indeed any conceivable set of prescriptive algorithms, could ever define their subject in its totality. In this century we have become uncomfortably aware of the extent to which the act of observation, the fact of our singling out some particular phenomenon for study and interpretation, itself affects the outcome of those observations. Even in striving to objectify ourselves, and in the very process of objectification, we still subjectivize the external world by touching it with the fingers of inquiry.