Reality Is The Cage Of

We Do Not Know, In Most Cases, How Far Social Failure And Success Are Due To Heredity, And How Far To Environment. But Environment Is The Easier Of The Two To Improve.

It Seems To Me Immensely Unlikely That Mind Is A Mere By-product Of Matter. For If My Mental Processes Are Determined Wholly By The Motions Of Atoms In My Brain I Have No Reason To Suppose That My Beliefs Are True. They May Be Sound Chemically, But That Does Not Make Them Sound Logically. And Hence I Have No Reason For Supposing My Brain To Be Composed Of Atoms.

The Wise Man Regulates His Conduct By The Theories Both Of Religion And Science. But He Regards These Theories Not As Statements Of Ultimate Fact But As Art-forms.

Until Politics Are A Branch Of Science, We Shall Do Well To Regard Political And Social Reforms As Experiments Rather Than Short-cuts To The Millennium.

To The Biologist The Problem Of Socialism Appears Largely As A Problem Of Size.