Certainty Ends Inquiry.

Mass, Time , Magnetic Moment, The Unconscious: We Have Grown Up With These Symbolic Concepts, So That We Are Startled To Be Told That Man Had Once To Create Them For Himself. He Had Indeed, And He Has: For Mass Is Not An Intuition In The Muscle, And Time Is Not Bought Ready-made At The Watchmaker's.

It Is Important That Students Bring A Certain Ragamuffin, Barefoot Irreverence To Their Studies; They Are Not Here To Worship What Is Known, But To Question It.

The Problem Of Values Arises Only When Men Try To Fit Together Their Need To Be Social Animals With Their Need To Be Free Men. There Is No Problem, And There Are No Values, Until Men Want To Do Both. If An Anarchist Wants Only Freedom, Whatever The Cost, He Will Prefer The Jungle Of Man At War With Man. And If A Tyrant Wants Only Social Order, He Will Create The Totalitarian State.

It Is A Mistake To Think Of Creative Activity As Something Unusual

The Most Remarkable Discovery Made By Scientists Is Science Itself. The Discovery Must Be Compared In Importance With The Invention Of Cave-painting And Of Writing. Like These Earlier Human Creations, Science Is An Attempt To Control Our Surroundings By Entering Into Them And Understanding Them From Inside. And Like Them, Science Has Surely Made A Critical Step In Human Development Which Cannot Be Reversed. We Cannot Conceive A Future Society Without Science.