> the complaints that there are no more grand fundamental discoveries is alike to complaining that we are not discovering any new continents on Earth. And this

> the complaints that there are no more grand fundamental discoveries is alike to complaining that we are not discovering any new continents on Earth. And this is a very real issue, for instance in physics. It means that if you go for research there, it is likely to be meh. I did my PhD in physics, I was thankfully at a moment where simulations and ML were just starting so I could have fun. There was exactly zero interesting discoveries in nuclear/atomic/particle during my time in academia. And the 40 years before. Compare this with 1090-1950. These years were simply incredible (especially the ones around 1900, to ~1920). You had almost every day discoveries that were shaking the world, and everyone was aware of that. This is not the fault of the scientists, this is just that the world is like this. It is indeed like complaining that there are no more continents, but then the reasonable thing to do it to invest more in teaching, or applied science.