Hi David:
I quoted in extenso Einstein a dozen of messages back. How come? Well, I was looking for one specific quote, and I like what I saw so much, I took some of them to our blackboard. The one I was looking for, though, I could not find. I'll quote it off my head:
The underlying substrate of any scientific endeavour is a belief in objective reality
...and I am not sure about "objective reality", to be honest. But it was definitely belief as a pre-condition. Of course we can now tear off on a discussion about objective reality, Kant, Hume, Spinoza (pretty good combination - A German, a Brit and a Jew;), but I guess we have better to do on a nice Saturday.
I think I saw the quote the first time years (30?) ago, in a book called something like "Introduction into general systems thinking" and I've been looking for this book left and right since (Foyles, Barns&Noble). Twas a rather old edition. Sigh, seems it just disappeared without a trace from the surface of the earth.
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