For many, the business of science is to search for causes. So when the would-be scientist Goethe declares to Schiller that ". . . we are not seeking causes but the circumstances under which the phenomenon occurs' ("Erfahrung und Wissenschaft": HA 13, p. 25; Goethe, 1952, p. 228), he seems to be missing the point of the scientific enterprise. He only makes matters worse by maintaining that, "Man in thinking errs particularly when inquiring after cause and effect; the two together constitute the indissoluble phenomenon . . . ["Maximen und Reflexionen", 591: HA 12, p. 446]. "It is rightly said that the phenomenon is a consequence without a ground, an effect without a cause [Goethe, Maximen . . ., 590: HA 12, p. 446].