paradox:

a statement or proposition that seems self-contradictory or absurd but in reality expresses a possible truth.

 

savant:

a person of profound or extensive learning; learned scholar.

 

teleology:

the doctrine that final causes exist; the study of the evidences of design or purpose in nature; the belief that purpose and design are a part of nature.

 

prime phenomenon:

a term coined by Goethe to refer to the beginning form from which all other forms flow or grow (Ur-phenomena), an idea formulated during his studies of botany: the archetypal form of the plant is to be found in the leaf – he writes, "from top to bottom a plant is all leaf, united so inseparably with the future bud that one cannot be imagined without the other".  The whole plant will emerge from the form of the leaf.