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It Is Odd To Think That There Is A Word For Something Which, Strictly Speaking, Does Not Exist, Namely, "rest." We Distinguish Between Living And Dead Matter; Between Moving Bodies And Bodies At Rest. This Is A Primitive Point Of View. What Seems Dead, A Stone Or The Proverbial "door-nail," Say, Is Actually Forever In Motion. We Have Merely Become Accustomed To Judge By Outward Appearances; By The Deceptive Impressions We Get Through Our Senses.

If God Has Made The World A Perfect Mechanism, He Has At Least Conceded So Much To Our Imperfect Intellect That In Order To Predict Little Parts Of It, We Need Not Solve Innumerable Differential Equations, But Can Use Dice With Fair Success.

There Are Two Objectionable Types Of Believers: Those Who Believe The Incredible And Those Who Believe That 'belief' Must Be Discarded And Replaced By 'the Scientific Method.

But In Practical Affairs, Particularly In Politics, Men Are Needed Who Combine Human Experience And Interest In Human Relations With A Knowledge Of Science And Technology.

My Advice To Those Who Which To Learn The Art Of Scientific Prophesy Is Not To Rely On Abstract Reason, But To Decipher The Secret Language Of Nature From Nature's Documents: The Facts Of Experience.