The Paradox Of Knowledge Is

The World Today Is Made, It Is Powered By Science; And For Any Man To Abdicate An Interest In Science Is To Walk With Open Eyes Towards Slavery.

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.

Mass, Time , Magnetic Moment, The Unconscious: We Have Grown Up With These Symbolic Concepts, So That We Are Startled To Be Told That Man Had Once To Create Them For Himself. He Had Indeed, And He Has: For Mass Is Not An Intuition In The Muscle, And Time Is Not Bought Ready-made At The Watchmaker's.

One Aim Of Physical Sciences Had Been To Give An Exact Picture The Material World. One Achievement Of Physics In The Twentieth Century Has Been To Prove That That Aim Is Unattainable.

One Original Thought Is Worth The Sum Total Of Human Knowledge, Because It Advances The Sum Total Of Human Knowledge By That One Original Thought.