Science Cannot Tell Us A

The World Is Given To Me Only Once, Not One Existing And One Perceived. Subject And Object Are Only One. The Barrier Between Them Cannot Be Said To Have Broken Down As A Result Of Recent Experience In The Physical Sciences, For This Barrier Does Not Exist.

Thus You Can Throw Yourself Flat On The Ground, Stretched Out Upon Mother Earth, With Certain Conviction That You Are One With Her And She With You...

I Am Very Astonished That The Scientific Picture Of The Real World Around Me Is Deficient. It Gives A Lot Of Factual Information, Puts All Our Experience In A Magnificently Consistent Order, But It Is Ghastly Silent About All And Sundry That Is Really Near To Our Heart, That Really Matters To Us. It Cannot Tell Us A Word About Red And Blue, Bitter And Sweet, Physical Pain And Physical Delight; It Knows Nothing Of Beautiful And Ugly, Good Or Bad, God And Eternity.

What We Observe As Material Bodies And Forces Are Nothing But Shapes And Variations In The Structure Of Space.

The Unphilosophical And Philosophical Attitudes Can Be Very Sharply Distinguished (with Scarcely Any Intermediate Forms) By The Fact That The First Accepts Everything That Happens As Regards Its General Form, And Finds Occasion For Surprise Only In That Special Content By Which Something That Happens Here Today Differs From What Happened There Yesterday; Whereas For The Second, It Is Precisely The Common Features Of All Experience, Such As Characterise Everything We Encounter, Which Are The Primary And Most Profound Occasion For Astonishment.