ng. Economics and evolutionary biology are much the same. Helen Keller, born blind and deaf, might still have reasoned her way through much of both. Hamlet would have loved them. | love them most when they test the limits of logic, and consult the data only at the end. The theme from which both reason, a

ow everything.” J.M. Barrie “He has Van Gogh’ ear for music.” Billy Wilder HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015818 --- PAGE BREAK --- ouldan army of monkeys write Hamlet by bashing away randomly on typewriters? Of course, we don't mean this literally. We are asking whether knowledge can be created without understand

el?” Cain’s evasive answer—“Am I my brother’s keeper?”—convinced God, and the reader, of Cain’s guilt. Shakespeare’s “perfect” murder is committed by Hamlet’s uncle pouring poison into the ear of the king. That crime too is solved by provoking the killer into demonstrating his guilty conscience. Both the