The Optimist Thinks This Is

Discovery Follows Discovery, Each Both Raising And Answering Questions, Each Ending A Long Search, And Each Providing The New Instruments For A New Search.

We Know That The Wages Of Secrecy Are Corruption. We Know That In Secrecy Error, Undetected, Will Flourish And Subvert.

Today, It Is Not Only That Our Kings Do Not Know Mathematics, But Our Philosophers Do Not Know Mathematics And - To Go A Step Further - Our Mathematicians Do Not Know Mathematics.

To The Confusion Of Our Enemies.

Truth, Not A Pet, Is Man's Best Friend.