Two years later, in 1753, he also brought out a series of pithy essays on scientific methodology that he entitled Pensées sur l’interprétation de la nature (On the Interpretation of Nature). This short book avoided the type of polemical materialism that he had preached in the Letter on the Blind, but it also implored a new generation of savants to embrace the power and unpredictability of a true and radical investigation of nature, one where the scientist does not seek preordained answers, but simply
