The Great Poem And The

Dissent Is The Mark Of Freedom.

To Me, Being An Intellectual Doesn't Mean Knowing About Intellectual Issues; It Means Taking Pleasure In Them.

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.

Da Vinci Was As Great A Mechanic And Inventor As Were Newton And His Friends. Yet A Glance At His Notebooks Shows Us That What Fascinated Him About Nature Was Its Variety, Its Infinite Adaptability, The Fitness And The Individuality Of All Its Parts. By Contrast What Made Astronomy A Pleasure To Newton Was Its Unity, Its Singleness, Its Model Of A Nature In Which The Diversified Parts Were Mere Disguises For The Same Blank Atoms.

Ask An Impertinent Question And You Are On The Way To The Pertinent Answer.