Man Appears To Be The Missing Link

Most Of The Vices And Mortal Sins Condemned Today Correspond To Inclinations That Were Purely Adaptive Or At Least Harmless In Primitive Man

Philosophers Are People Who Know Less And Less About More And More, Until They Know Nothing About Everything. Scientists Are People Who Know More And More About Less And Less, Until They Know Everything About Nothing.

Every Mutation Through A New Combination Of Genetic Factors That Provides The Organism With A New Opportunity For Coming To Terms With The Conditions Of Its Environment Signifies No More And No Less Than That New Information About This Environment Has Got Into That Organic System. Adaptation Is Essentially A Cognitive Process.

One Of The Most Dangerously Vicious Circles Menacing The Continued Existence Of All Mankind Arises Through That Grim Striving For The Highest Possible Position Within The Ranked Order, In Other Words, The Reckless Pursuit Of Power Which Combines With An Insatiable Greed Of Neurotic Proportions That The Results Of Acquired Power Confer.

The Attitude Of The True Scientist Towards The Real Limits Of Human Understanding Was Unforgettably Impressed On Me In Early Youth By The Obviously Unpremeditated Words Of A Great Biologist; Alfred Kuhn Finished A Lecture To The Austrian Academy Of Science With Goethe 's Words, "it Is The Greatest Joy Of The Man Of Thought To Have Explored The Explorable And Then Calmly To Revere The Inexplorable." After The Last Word He Hesitated, Raised His Hand In Repudiation And Cried, Above The Applause, "no, Not Calmly, Gentlemen; Not Calmly!