Science, Like Art, Is Not A Copy

That Series Of Inventions By Which Man From Age To Age Has Remade His Environment Is A Different Kind Of Evolution -- Not Biological, But Cultural Evolution . . . "the Ascent Of Man.

Man Is Unique Not Because He Does Science, And His Is Unique Not Because He Does Art, But Because Science And Art Equally Are Expressions Of His Marvelous Plasticity Of Mind.

There Must Be Something Unique About Man Because Otherwise, Evidently, The Ducks Would Be Lecturing About Konrad Lorenz, And The Rats Would Be Writing Papers About B. F. Skinner.

Nations In Their Great Ages Have Not Been Great In Art Or Science, But In Art And 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.