A Theory In Its Day Helps To

Progress Is The Exploration Of Our Own Error.

I Call That Brilliant Sequence Of Cultural Peaks The Ascent Of Man.

Has There Ever Been A Society Which Has Died Of Dissent? Several Have Died Of Conformity In Our Lifetime.

There Is A Social Injunction Implied In The Positivist And Analyst Methods. This Social Axiom Is That :;:;:;:;:;:; We Ought To Act In Such A Way That What Is True Can Be Verified To Be So.

[john] Dalton Was A Man Of Regular Habits. For Fifty-seven Years He Walked Out Of Manchester Every Day; He Measured The Rainfall, The Temperature-a Singularly Monotonous Enterprise In This Climate. Of All That Mass Of Data, Nothing Whatever Came. But Of The One Searching, Almost Childlike Question About The Weights That Enter The Construction Of These Simple Molecules-out Of That Came Modern Atomic Theory. That Is The Essence Of Science: Ask An Impertinent Question, And You Are On The Way To The Pertinent Answer.