In Many Instances, Order Is Apprehended First

Both Art And Science Are Bent On The Understanding Of The Forces That Shape Existence, And Both Call For A Dedication To What Is. Neither Of Them Can Tolerate Capricious Subjectivity Because Both Are Subject To Their Criteria Of Truth. Both Require Precision, Order, And Discipline Because No Comprehensible Statement Can Be Made Without These. Both Accept The Sensory World As What The Middle Ages Called Signatura Regrum, The Signature Of Things, But In Quite Different Ways.

Entropy Theory Is Indeed A First Attempt To Deal With Global Form; But It Has Not Been Dealing With Structure. All It Says Is That A Large Sum Of Elements May Have Properties Not Found In A Smaller Sample Of Them.

Nothing Is More Humbling Than To Look With A Strong Magnifying Glass At An Insect So Tiny That The Naked Eye Sees Only The Barest Speck And To Discover That Nevertheless It Is Sculpted And Articulated And Striped With The Same Care And Imagination.

A Good Documentary Or Educational Film Is Not Raw Experience. The Material Has Passed The Mill Of Reason, It Has Been Sifted And Interpreted.

The Least Touchable Object In The World Is The Eye.