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4: Nature Conformable to Herself — SFI Press

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More than thirty years ago, I was the first visiting professor at the College de France in Paris, with an office in the laboratory of experimental physics. I noticed that my experimental colleagues were frequently drawing little pictures in their notebooks, which I assumed were diagrams of experimental apparatus. But it turned out that those drawings were mostly of a gallows for hanging the vice director of the lab, whose rigid ideas drove them crazy.

4: Nature Conformable to Herself - SFI Press 0 4: Nature Conformable to Herself Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight pp. 31-39 4: Nature Conformable to Herself Author: Murray Gell-Mann Chapter Originally published in the SFI Bulletin Winter/Spring 1992, From a talk given at the 1992 Complex Systems Winter School, Tucson, Arizona More than thirty years ago, I was the first visiting professor at the College de France in Paris, with an office in the laboratory of experimental physics. I noticed that my experimental colleagues were frequently drawing little pictures in their notebooks, which I assumed wer

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