...to Many It Is Not Knowledge But

Humanity Is At The Very Beginning Of Its Existence-a New-born Babe, With All The Unexplored Potentialities Of Babyhood; And Until The Last Few Moments Its Interest Has Been Centred, Absolutely And Exclusively, On Its Cradle And Feeding Bottle.

All Discussion Of The Ultimate Nature Of Things Must Necessarily Be Barren Unless We Have Some Extraneous Standards Against Which To Compare Them.

Kant, Discussing The Various Modes Of Perception By Which The Human Mind Apprehends Nature, Concluded That It Is Specially Prone To See Nature Through Mathematical Spectacles. Just As A Man Wearing Blue Spectacles Would See Only A Blue World, So Kant Thought That, With Our Mental Bias, We Tend To See Only A Mathematical World.

Sciences Usually Advances By A Succession Of Small Steps, Through A Fog In Which Even The Most Keen-sighted Explorer Can Seldom See More Than A Few Paces Ahead. Occasionally The Fog Lifts, An Eminence Is Gained, And A Wider Stretch Of Territory Can Be Surveyed-sometimes With Startling Results. A Whole Science May Then Seem To Undergo A Kaleidoscopic Rearrangement, Fragments Of Knowledge Sometimes Being Found To Fit Together In A Hitherto Unsuspected Manner. Sometimes The Shock Of Readjustment May Spread To Other Sciences; Sometimes It May Divert The Whole Current Of Human Thought.

To Travel Hopefully Is Better Than To Arrive.