All Science Is The Search For Unity

Knowledge Is Not A Loose Leaf Notebook Of Facts.

[john] Dalton Was A Man Of Regular Habits. For Fifty-seven Years He Walked Out Of Manchester Every Day; He Measured The Rainfall, The Temperature-a Singularly Monotonous Enterprise In This Climate. Of All That Mass Of Data, Nothing Whatever Came. But Of The One Searching, Almost Childlike Question About The Weights That Enter The Construction Of These Simple Molecules-out Of That Came Modern Atomic Theory. That Is The Essence Of Science: Ask An Impertinent Question, And You Are On The Way To The Pertinent Answer.

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.

It Doesn't Matter Whether You're Talking About Bombs Or The Intelligence Quotients Of One Race As Against Another If A Man Is A Scientist, Like Me, He'll Always Say Publish And Be Damned.

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.