After Mastery Comes Artistry And Not Before.

The Map Is Not The Territory (coined By Alfred Korzybski), And The Name Is Not The Thing Named.

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 Do Not Know Enough About How The Present Will Lead Into The Future. We Shall Never Be Able To Say, "ha! My Perception, My Accounting For That Series, Will Indeed Cover Its Next And Future Components," Or "next Time I Meet With These Phenomena, I Shall Be Able To Predict Their Total Course."

Information Consists Of Differences That Make A Difference.

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.