The World Is Made Up

The Largest Single Step In The Ascent Of Man Is The Change From Nomad To Village Agriculture.

There Are Two Parts To The Human Dilemma. One Is The Belief That The End Justifies The Means. That Push-button Philosophy, That Deliberate Deafness To Suffering, Has Become The Monster In The War Machine. The Other Is The Betrayal Of The Human Spirit: The Assertion Of Dogma That Closes The Mind, And Turns A Nation, A Civilization, Into A Regiment Of Ghosts--obedient Ghosts Or Tortured Ghosts.

By The Worldly Standards Of Public Life, All Scholars In Their Work Are Of Course Oddly Virtuous. They Do Not Make Wild Claims, They Do Not Cheat, They Do Not Try To Persuade At Any Cost, They Appeal Neither To Prejudice Nor To Authority, They Are Often Frank About Their Ignorance, Their Disputes Are Fairly Decorous, They Do Not Confuse What Is Being Argued With Race, Politics, Sex Or Age, They Listen Patiently To The Young And To The Old Who Both Know Everything. These Are The General Virtues Of Scholarship, And They Are Peculiarly The Virtues Of Science.

I Set Out To Show That There Exists Single Creative Activity,which Is Displayed Alike In The Arts And In The Sciences.it Is Wrong To Think Of Science As A Mechanical Record Of Facts, And It Is Wrong To Think Of The Arts As Remote And Private Fancies. What Makes Each Human, What Makes Them Universal, Is The Stamp Of The Creative Mind.

There Is No Absolute Knowledge. And Those Who Claim It, Whether They Are Scientists Or Dogmatists, Open The Door To Tragedy.