Nature Has Not Fitted Man To Any

The Most Remarkable Discovery Made By Scientists Is Science Itself. The Discovery Must Be Compared In Importance With The Invention Of Cave-painting And Of Writing. Like These Earlier Human Creations, Science Is An Attempt To Control Our Surroundings By Entering Into Them And Understanding Them From Inside. And Like Them, Science Has Surely Made A Critical Step In Human Development Which Cannot Be Reversed. We Cannot Conceive A Future Society Without Science.

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.

We Are All Afraid For Our Confidence, For The Future, For The World. That Is The Nature Of The Human Imagination. Yet Every Man, Every Civilization, Has Gone Forward Because Of Its Engagement With What It Has Set Itself To Do.

The Preoccupation With The Choice Of A Mate Both By Male And Female I Regard As A Continuing Echo Of The Major Selective Force By Which We Have Evolved.

I Set Out To Show That There Exists Single Creative Activity,which Is Displayed Alike In The Arts And In The Sciences.it Is Wrong To Think Of Science As A Mechanical Record Of Facts, And It Is Wrong To Think Of The Arts As Remote And Private Fancies. What Makes Each Human, What Makes Them Universal, Is The Stamp Of The Creative Mind.