Almost Everyone... Seems To Be Quite Sure

Science Is The Century-old Endeavour To Bring Together By Means Of Systematic Thought The Perceptible Phenomena Of This World Into As Thorough-going An Association As Possible. To Put It Boldly, It Is The Attempt At A Posterior Reconstruction Of Existence By The Process Of Conceptualization. Science Can Only Ascertain What Is, But Not What Should Be, And Outside Of Its Domain Value Judgements Of All Kinds Remain Necessary.

Thus Science Must Begin With Myths, And With The Criticism Of Myths; Neither With The Collection Of Observations, Nor With The Invention Of Experiments, But With The Critical Discussion Of Myths, And Of Magical Techniques And Practices.

. . . It Seems To Me Certain That More People Are Killed Out Of Righteous Stupidity Than Out Of Wickedness.

Nature Consists Of Facts And Of Regularities, And Is In Itself Neither Moral Nor Immoral. It Is We Who Impose Our Standards Upon Nature, And Who In This Way Introduce Morals Into The Natural World, In Spite The Fact That We Are Part Of This World. We Are Products Of Nature, But Nature Has Made Us Together With Our Power Of Altering The World, Of Foreseeing And Of Planning For The Future, And Of Making Far-reaching Decisions For Which We Are Morally Responsible. Yet, Responsibility, Decisions, Enter The World Of Nature Only With Us

It Is Wrong To Think That Belief In Freedom Always Leads To Victory; We Must Always Be Prepared For It To Lead To Defeat. If We Choose Freedom, Then We Must Be Prepared To Perish Along With It.