Pragmatism Is An Intellectually Safe

This World Of Ours Is A New World, In Which The Unit Of Knowledge, The Nature Of Human Communities, The Order Of Society, The Order Of Ideas, The Very Notions Of Society And Culture Have Changed, And Will Not Return To What They Have Been In The Past. What Is New Is New, Not Because It Has Never Been There Before, But Because It Has Changed In Quality.

We May Be Likened To Two Scorpions In A Bottle, Each Capable Of Killing The Other, But Only At The Risk Of His Own Life.

We Knew The World Would Not Be The Same. A Few People Laughed, A Few People Cried, Most People Were Silent. I Remembered The Line From The Hindu Scripture, The Bhagavad-gita; Vishnu Is Trying To Persuade The Prince That He Should Do His Duty And, To Impress Him, Takes On His Multi-armed Form And Says, "now I Am Become Death, The Destroyer Of Worlds." I Suppose We All Thought That, One Way Or Another.

The History Of Science Is Rich In Example Of The Fruitfulness Of Bringing Two Sets Of Techniques, Two Sets Of Ideas, Developed In Separate Contexts For The Pursuit Of New Truth, Into Touch With One Another.

If We Must Live With A Perpetual Sense That The World And The Men In It Are Greater Than We And Too Much For Us, Let It Be The Measure Of Our Virtue That We Know This And Seek No Comfort.