International cooperation in physics
DOI: 10.1063/1.3068774
Physics is the uniquely international science. No other science is so closely tied, in all countries, to budgetary and regulatory agencies at the government level, and so no other science is as well placed as physics to implement cooperative ventures cutting across national boundaries. And its followers communicate in an international language that transcends any trivial difficulties over mere words; physicists around the world may not always agree, but at least they know what their foreign counterparts are saying and publishing.
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John T. Scott, PHYSICS TODAY.
