JOSEF ALBERS, A Pair of Structural Constellations: 

 A Matter of Changing Viewpoints 



We plunge forward into the field of fresh experience with the beliefs our 

 ancestors and we have made already; these determine what we notice; 

 what we notice determines what we do; what we do again determines 

 what we experience; so from one thing to another, although the stubborn 

 fact remains that there is a sensible flux, what is true of it seems from 

 first to last to be largely a matter of our own creation. 



WILLIAM JAMES 



I still believe in the possibility of producing a model of reality— that is to 

 say, a theory which will fepresent things themselves. 



'~" *■ ■ ' ALBERT EINSTEIN 



And the pursuit whose quest is Nature's understanding, has this among 

 its rewards, that as it progresses its truth is testable. Truth is a "value." 

 The quest itself therefore is in a measure its own satisfaction. We receive 

 the lesson that our advance to knowledge is of asymptotic type, even as 

 continually approaching so continually without arrival. The satisfaction 

 shall therefore be eternal. 



CHARLES S. SHERRINGTON 



