Satire Is Not A Social

Knowledge Is Not A Loose Leaf Notebook Of Facts.

A Popular Cliche In Philosophy Says That Science Is Pure Analysis Or Reductionism, Like Taking The Rainbow To Pieces; And Art Is Pure Synthesis, Putting The Rainbow Together. This Is Not So. All Imagination Begins By Analyzing Nature.

I Grew Up To Be Indifferent To The Distinction Between Literature And Science, Which In My Teens Were Simply Two Languages For Experience That I Learned Together.

Nature Is More Subtle, More Deeply Intertwined And More Strangely Integrated Than Any Of Our Pictures Of Her Than Any Of Our Errors. It Is Not Merely That Our Pictures Are Not Full Enough; Each Of Our Pictures In The End Turns Out To Be So Basically Mistaken That The Marvel Is That It Worked At All.

Man Is A Singular Creature. He Has A Set Of Gifts Which Make Him Unique Among The Animals, So That Unlike Them, He Is Not A Figure In The Landscape, He Is The Shaper Of The Landscape.