"With methods meant to seize the ready-made, it [science] cannot in general enter into what is being done, it cannot follow the moving reality, adopt the becoming which is the life of things. This last task belongs to philosophy. While the scientist [...] is obliged to use craft with nature, to adopt toward it the wary attitude of an adversary, the philosopher treats nature as a comrade. The rule of science is one posited by Bacon: obey in order to command. The philosopher neither obeys nor commands; he seeks to be at one with nature." Henri Bergson, Creative Mind p126.
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