Every scientific discovery is in a sense the autobiography of the man who made it.
Alfred Korzybski came to America in December 1915. He wrote this book in 1920 when he was 41 years old. It is, so far as I know, his first written work published or unpublished in any language. To me this has always seemed a very significant thing, related to the creativeness, the relentless vigor, the simplicity of the man, the integrity, the depth, the practicality of his work and methods. All his life he looked wide-eyed at the world, he contemplated what he saw, he questioned, why, how.