Nature Has Not Fitted Man

All Those Formal Systems, In Mathematics And Physics And The Philosophy Of Science, Which Claim To Give Foundations For Certain Truth Are Surely Mistaken. I Am Tempted To Say That We Do Not Look For Truth, But For Knowledge. But I Dislike This Form Of Words, For Two Reasons. First Of All, We Do Look For Truth, However We Define It, It Is What We Find That Is Knowledge. And Second, What We Fail To Find Is Not Truth, But Certainty; The Nature Of Truth Is Exactly The Knowledge That We Do Find.

I Grew Up To Be Indifferent To The Distinction Between Literature And Science, Which In My Teens Were Simply Two Languages For Experience That I Learned Together.

Knowledge Is Not A Loose-leaf Notebook Of Facts. Above All, It Is A Responsibility For The Integrity Of What We Are, Primarily Of What We Are As Ethical Creatures.

Beyond All Our Actions Stands The Larger Shadow: How Are We To Choose Between What We Have Been Taught To Think Right And Something Else Which Manifestly Succeeds?

The Men Who Made The Industrial Revolution Are Usually Pictured As Hardfaced Businessmen With No Other Motive Than Self-interest. That Is Certainly Wrong. For One Thing, Many Of Them Were Inventors Who Had Come Into Business That Way.