The Progress Of Science Is

There Must Be Something Unique About Man Because Otherwise, Evidently, The Ducks Would Be Lecturing About Konrad Lorenz, And The Rats Would Be Writing Papers About B. F. Skinner.

There Are Three Creative Ideas Which, Each In Its Turn, Have Been Central To Science. They Are The Idea Of Order, The Idea Of Causes, And The Idea Of Chance.

We Have To Understand That The World Can Only Be Grasped By Action, Not By Contemplation. The Hand Is More Important Than The Eye ... The Hand Is The Cutting Edge Of The Mind.

We Receive Experience From Nature In A Series Of Messages. From These Messages We Extract A Content Of Information: That Is, We Decode The Messages In Some Way. And From This Code Of Information We Then Make A Basic Vocabulary Of Concepts And A Basic Grammar Of Laws, Which Jointly Describe The Inner Organization That Nature Translates Into The Happenings And The Appearances We Meet.

Einstein Was A Man Who Could Ask Immensely Simple Questions. And What His Work Showed Is That When The Answers Are Simple Too, Then You Can Hear God Thinking.