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A Reality Completely Independent Of The Spirit That Conceives It, Sees It, Or Feels It, Is An Impossibility. A World So External As That, Even If It Existed, Would Be Forever Inaccessible To Us.

. . . By Natural Selection Our Mind Has Adapted Itself To The Conditions Of The External World. It Has Adopted The Geometry Most Advantageous To The Species Or, In Other Words, The Most Convenient. Geometry Is Not True, It Is Advantageous.

If We Knew Exactly The Laws Of Nature And The Situation Of The Universe At The Initial Moment, We Could Predict Exactly The Situation Of The Same Universe At A Succeeding Moment.

The Mind Uses Its Faculty For Creativity Only When Experience Forces It To Do So.

Pure Logic Could Never Lead Us To Anything But Tautologies; It Can Create Nothing New; Not From It Alone Can Any Science Issue.