A Genius Is A Man Who Has

When Da Vinci Wanted An Effect, He Willed, He Planned The Means To Make It Happen: That Was The Purpose Of His Machines. But The Machines Of Newton ... Are Means Not For Doing But For Observing. He Saw An Effect, And He Looked For Its Cause.

By The Worldly Standards Of Public Life, All Scholars In Their Work Are Of Course Oddly Virtuous. They Do Not Make Wild Claims, They Do Not Cheat, They Do Not Try To Persuade At Any Cost, They Appeal Neither To Prejudice Nor To Authority . . .

There Are Three Creative Ideas Which, Each In Its Turn, Have Been Central To Science. They Are The Idea Of Order, The Idea Of Causes, And The Idea Of Chance.

We Re-make Nature By The Act Of Discovery, In The Poem Or In The Theorem. And The Great Poem And The Deep Theorem Are New To Every Reader, And Yet Are His Own Experiences, Because He Himself Re-creates Them. They Are The Marks Of Unity In Variety; And In The Instant When The Mind Seizes This For Itself, In Art Or In Science, The Heart Misses A Beat.

Man Is A Singular Creature. He Has A Set Of Gifts Which Make Him Unique Among The Animals, So That Unlike Them, He Is Not A Figure In The Landscape, He Is The Shaper Of The Landscape.