[58,59] Curiosity demands that we ask questions and so we try to put the things togeth er
[60] to understand this multitude of aspects
[61] as perhaps the action of a small number of elemental things
[64] or things and forces perhaps in an infinite variety of combinations.
[65] For instance,
[66,67] Is the sand other than the rocks?
[68] that is to say
[69] Is the sand maybe nothing but a great number of very tiny stone[s]?
[70] Is the moon a rock?
[71] Or we mean, if we understood rocks, we also understand [72] the sand
[73] and the moon?
[74] And so,
[75] Another example, Is the wind, a slushing of the air, analoguous to the slushing motio n of the water
[76] in/and the sea?
[77] What common features do the different movements have?
[78] What's common to different kinds of sound? How many different colors are there?
and so on.
[79] And so we gradually try to analyze all this,
[80] trying to put together things which at first sight look different, [81] with the hope
[82] that we may be able to reduce the thing [83] and understand it better.
[84] A few hundred years ago, a method was devised to find partial answers to such que stions,
[85,86,87] and I wish to give you a report on the progress today, and analyzing these thi ngs,
[89] by observation, reasonable experiment, [of]
[90] of course, is the method [91,92] that we call the science.