"I have often had cause to feel that……" — George Wald

I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer… - George Wald

"I have often had cause to feel that my hands are cleverer than my head. That is a crude way of characterizing the dialectics of experimentation. When it is going well, it is like a quiet conversation with Nature. One asks a question and gets an answer, then one asks the next question and gets the next answer. An experiment is a device to make Nature speak intelligibly. After that, one only has to listen."

— George Wald

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