Quotes by Understanding Nature Unless man have a natural bent in accordance with nature's, he has no chance of understanding nature at all. Charles Sanders Peirce understanding-nature chance men To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. Marc Chagall understanding-nature fairy-tale would-be Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. Marilyn Ferguson understanding-nature intuition real Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized this process of leaping ahead, however, in part because textbooks tend to tame revolutions...They describe the advances as if they had been logical in their day, not all shocking. Marilyn Ferguson understanding-nature real science Modern man, seeking a middle position in the evaluation of sense impression and thought, can, following Plato , interpret the process of understanding nature as a correspondence, that is, a coming into congruence of pre-existing images of the human psyche with external objects and their behaviour. Modern man, of course, unlike Plato , looks on the pre-existent original images also as not invariable, but as relative to the development of a conscious point of view, so that the word "dialectic" which Plato is fond of using may be applied to the process of development of human knowledge. Wolfgang Pauli understanding-nature plato men
