Starting with Eugene Wigner’s 1960 article, an expansion of natural science is made to study both inanimate and animate nature. Further expanding the goal of science to the full description of nature, the uniqueness of all objects and events is introduced shifting this goal of science to the description of unique objects and events. As our current scientific methodology and tools attempt to eliminate uniqueness, we cannot use current scientific methodology or current mathematical tools to describe such a unique world. Therefore we must retreat to science being the study of general laws. Given the importance of our mathematical tools to science, the question of whether our current tools are sufficient is asked. Bringing in historical analogies, a need for inventing new numeric tools is presented.
Donald Palmer