A Theory In Its Day Helps To

We Are A Scientific Civilization. That Means A Civilization In Which Knowledge And Its Integrity Are Crucial. Science Is Only A Latin Word For Knowledge ... Knowledge Is Our Destiny.

The Progress Of Science Is The Discovery At Each Step Of A New Order Which Gives Unity To What Had Seemed Unlike.

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.

To Imagine Is The Characteristic Act, Not Of The Poet's Mind, Or The Painter's, Or The Scientist's, But Of The Mind Of Man.

Many Theories Of The Ancient World Seem Terribly Childish Today, A Hodge-podge Of Fables And False Comparisons.but Our Theories Will Seem Childish Five-hundred Years From Now.every Theory Is Based On Some Analogy, And Sooner Or Later The Theory Fails Because The Analogy Turns Out To Be False. A Theory In Its Day Helps To Solve The Problems Of The Day.