读麦·讲演·在光速下生活（1974）·016

Don’t think they don’t have their troubles because one of the problems of Western visual man is that he tries to translate everything into visual terms. It is very difficult for Western man take things except in a visual, connected, rational mode. Modern physicists report all their findings in Newtonian terms, which are the old-fashioned visual language. One of the peculiarities of modern physics is it still use the old Newtonian language. Newton was all visual. Everything was classified, connected, continuous. Modern physics has many troubles with the visual problem and the acoustic problem. They don’t know whether, for example, to have a particle theory or a wave theory of matter. A particle theory of matter tends to be visual, and a wave theory tends to be kinetic. But modern physics is pided into the different sensory modes of man, and many members of the top physics world are quite unable to understand some of the non-visual aspects of their own field. They’re very good at maintaining the general decorum and the conventional respectability of their clan, but in fact they are pided by severe strife within.

不要以为他们就没有他们的麻烦，因为西方视觉人的问题之一在于他企图把一切都翻译成视觉术语。对于西方人，不以一种视觉的、连接的、理性的方式去把握事物，是非常困难的。当代物理学家用牛顿术语——老派的视觉语言——描述他们所有的发现。当代物理学的特点之一是它仍然使用过时的牛顿语言。牛顿完全是视觉的。一切都是分类的、按次序连接的、连续的。当代物理学因为视觉问题和听觉问题而有很多麻烦。比方说，他们不知道关于物质究竟是该接受粒子论还是波动说。物质的粒子论倾向于形象化，而波动论则倾向于动态。当代物理学被划分为人的不同感知模式，物理学界许多顶尖的成员都完全无法理解他们自己领域里的某些非视觉方面。他们非常擅长维持其学派的一般礼节和传统的体面，但事实上，他们因内部争执而发生分裂。

按：视觉-书面-机械人的思想方法以牛顿体系为例，讲求视觉的、理性的、分类的、按次序连接的和连续的，他们企图把一切翻译成视觉术语，完全无法理解接受事物的非视觉方面。

波粒二象性描述同一现象的波动性和粒子性之间的并协关系。这样折中的描述，是现代人从视觉思维回归动态思维的桥段。