complex religious ritual and etiquette “individuality of character 
need not be highly developed.” He speaks as a highly literate 
man for whom “development” means having a private point of 
view. High development as it might appear to a native would 
not be accessible to our visual mode of awareness. We can get 
some idea of the attitude of a member of a tradition-directed 
society to technological improvements from a story related by 
Werner Heisenberg in The Physicist’s Conception of Nature . A 
modern physicist with his habit of “field” perception, and his 
sophisticated separation from our conventional habits of 
Newtonian space, easily finds in the pre-literate world a 
congenial kind of wisdom.

     Heisenberg is discussing “science as a part of the 
interplay between man and Nature” (p. 20):