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内省，瞑想だけで世界はわかる(?)

KeynesによるNewton, the Manから引用しよう．

III-972 There are his telescopes and his optical experiments, These were essential accomplishments, part of his unequalled all-round technique, but not, I am sure, his peculiar gift, especially amongst his contemporaries. His peculiar gift was the power of holding continuously in his mind a purely mental problem until he had seen straight through it. [J. M. Keynes, “Newton, the Man” (1946)]

III-974 .... His experiments were always, I suspect, a means, not of discovery, but always of verifying what he knew already. [J. M. Keynes, “Newton, the Man” (1946)]

III-975 He regarded the universe as a cryptogram set by the Almighty ... By pure thought, by concentration of mind, the riddle, he believed, would be revealed to the initiate. [J. M. Keynes, “Newton, the Man” (1946)]

III-976 All would be revealed to him if only he could persevere to the end, uninterrupted, by himself, no one coming into the room, reading, copying, testing-all by himself, no interruption for God’s sake, no disclosure, no discordant breakings in or criticism, with fear and shrinking as he assailed these half-ordained, half forbidden things, creeping back into the bosom of the Godhead as into his mother’s womb.