¶ Discovery of Generalized Principles
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“I would say that there is going to be a general discovery of the general orderliness and the significance of the general orderliness which is a complex of abstract principles. It is a concept of intellectual conceptions. Everyone of them are intellectual conceptions. They are what the scientist calls elegant as he begins to discover it. As any one of these principles are discovered, the men discovering it are moved I am sure as no other human beings are moved. There is a very extraordinary sensation as you discover that Universe is operating on this principle and it has been there all the time. It is much more than discovering a brook when you are a child, and that is pretty exciting when you are a child to discover a brook, or to see the dew on the grass for the first time, but it is much more still when a scientist discovers an operating principle of Universe. They are complex and of very enormous intellectual conceptions. What we are discovering also is that these principles are anticipatory. There is nothing we can do which nature is not ready for us.”
