A tradition of thought itself: an examination and fixation with the powerful means–forever a useful study–and not just the ends–which are achievements that tend to fade in the vast night sky of shining accomplishments. The accomplishment of science, for example, is first and foremost the triumph of the mind. What are the forms, feelings and processes that brought Newton, Einstein to their conclusions? Conception begets reality: it is no great difficulty to understand a car engine–but to understand the creation of the concept 'engine' demands more subtle, complex forms of the mind.