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"There is excitement in the air as we undertake this last phase of a fifty-year search for the re-bridging of the gap between Science and the Humanities-- created when science, abandoning fundamental conceptual modeling, started a century ago to ‘fly’ exclusively ‘on instruments.’ We have, I am confident, the new conceptual bridge between the sciences and the humanities. Because the instrument- and mathematical-symbol-conditioned world of science has great momentum and competence in ‘blind flight,’ it is not going to take quickly to our new tools-- so you are the bridge builder from me to the rest of science.
"I would like you to say what I say-- in my explorer’s half-century-developed, experimentally formulated language-- to the scientists, in their language. Our terms often coincide but are ambiguous and, at times, contradictory. I think you can easily smooth out the differences.
“I am confident that I can talk lucidly to the public and particularly to the young world. I know that you and I can talk lucidly to one another. I am therefore confident that”
