Lessons from Windows on the Universe
arXiv:0910.0160
Abstract
I know better than to come between the experts here assembled and their research programs, so I confine these remarks to lessons to be drawn on the state of our subject from the histories of research in three Windows on the Universe: cosmology, our extragalactic neighborhood, and life in other worlds.
Keynote address to 21st Rencontre de Blois, June 2009; 6 pages