On St. Martins Day in 1619, Rene Descartes had a vision of a mechanical world that became the basis for his philosophy. He believed it had been channeled by the Angel of Truth, and he undertook a pilgrimage to the Shrine of the Virgin at Loretto two years later as a means of giving thanks for the insight.
"Albert Einstein did not think in words, nor did his important insights come to him in mathematical terms. Instead, he had physical images coupled with visual images that represented complete entities which then had to be laboriously broken down and translated into mathematics and words."
-Edward T. Hall
" The most important difference between modern science and ancient natural philosophy lies in the method employed. Whereas in ancient philosophy the empirical knowledge of natural phenomena was reckoned sufficient for drawing conclusions about the underlying principles, it is a characteristic feature of modern science to institute experiments, i.e. to put specific questions to nature, whose answers are then to yield information about its laws."
- Werner Heisenberg
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