A Good Parent Gives Their Child Roots

As A Child I Was Not Interested In Science. I Was Merely Interested In Things Human, The Human Side Of Nature, If You Like, And I Continue To Be Interested In That. That's What Motivates Me.

We Were Told In One Lecture That It Was Possible To Immunize Against Diphtheria And Tetanus By The Use Of Chemically Treated Toxins, Or Toxoids. And The Following Lecture, We Were Told That For Immunization Against A Virus Disease, You Have To Experience The Infection, And That You Could Not Induce Immunity With The So-called "killed" Or Inactivated, Chemically Treated Virus Preparation. Well, Somehow, That Struck Me. What Struck Me Was That Both Statements Couldn't Be True. And I Asked Why This Was So, And The Answer That Was Given Was In A Sense, 'because.' There Was No Satisfactory Answer.

I Think Of The Need For More Wisdom In The World, To Deal With The Knowledge That We Have. At One Time We Had Wisdom, But Little Knowledge. Now We Have A Great Deal Of Knowledge, But Do We Have Enough Wisdom To Deal With That Knowledge?

Nothing Happens Quite By Chance. It's A Question Of Accretion Of Information And Experience.

Evolution Favors The Survival Of The Wisest.