After Mastery Comes Artistry And Not Before.

Numbers Are The Product Of Counting. Quantities Are The Product Of Measurement. This Means That Numbers Can Conceivably Be Accurate Because There Is A Discontinuity Between Each Integer And The Next.

It Is Impossible, In Principle, To Explain Any Pattern By Invoking A Single Quantity.

Science, Like Art, Religion, Commerce, Warfare, And Even Sleep, Is Based On Presuppositions. It Differs, However, From Most Other Branches Of Human Activity In That Not Only Are The Pathways Of Scientific Thought Determined By The Presuppositions Of The Scientists But Their Goals Are The Testing And Revision Of Old Presuppositions And The Creation Of New.

We Are Discovering Today That Several Of The Premises Which Are Deeply Ingrained In Our Way Of Life Are Simply Untrue And Become Pathogenic When Implemented With Modern Technology.

Whenever We Pride Ourselves Upon Finding A Newer, Stricter Way Of Thought Or Exposition … We Lose Something Of The Ability To Think New Thoughts. And Equally, Of Course, Whenever We Rebel Against The Sterile Rigidity Of Formal Thought And Exposition And Let Our Ideas Run Wild, We Likewise Lose. As I See It, The Advances In Scientific Thought Come From A Combination Of Lose And Strict Thinking, And This Combination Is The Most Precious Tool Of Science.