"Man was born free, and he is everywhere in chains". These words are the opener to book The Social Contract, and probably the most famous words uttered by humanist philosopher Jean-Jacques Rousseau, circa 1760. I thought it appropriate for sporting the Br...
and think more of Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan, the view that we can explain the universe by starting with the smallest mechanistic interaction. Perhaps if the universe worked according to Breguet, we might be as happy as looking at this watch makes me. Cheer...