The Sciences and Man's Community
The Reith Lectures
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Observing the Atomic World
We have the beginnings of an understanding of what it is in man, and more so in simple organisms, that is truly heritable. And rudimentary clues as to how this inheritance occurs we know in surprising detail. But is the physical counterpart of the act of vision and of other modes of perception, not one of these new ideas and new sight? Only some of these ways of description could be actual. This is because we need to take into account not merely the atomic system we are studying, but the means we use in observing it. All such ways of observing are needed for the whole experience of the atomic world, all but one are excluded in any actual experience. In the specific instance, there
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