¶ A Priori Mystery
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A Priori Mystery:
“If we had Isaac Newton here and we asked him what mass attraction is, he’d say I cannot tell you because there is nothing in one of the bodies which indicates it’s going to attract or be attracted by-- it is a behavior between and not of. Now this is to say that science, at its beginnings, starts with a priori absolute mystery, within which absolute mystery there looms these beautiful behaviors of physical Universe, where the reliabilities are eternal. . . I find @then the fact that this a priori mystery exists has been really lost by the public today, and so many who studied science just really technically learned some rules and learned how to operate some instruments, but really missing this mystery. There could be no atheism, for instance, if you really knew about synergy and mass attraction.”
¶ Citations
- RBF at Students’ International &.edition Seminar, U. Mass., Amherst, 22 July '71
