Spencer Heath Archive

Item 3026.

Extract from letter to Heath from Howard O. Stearns, Item 1730, here made into a separate item because of its insight into how Heath was thinking.

September 1, 1956

[Stearns: Your paper has many excellent ideas but I fear that for a scientist the degree to which you communicate them to him is not great because the terms are not used in senses familiar to him.]

Heath:  I have tried to employ terms most easily intelligible to

   uninstructed intelligence.