Certainty Ends Inquiry.

In The Moment Of Appreciation We Live Again The Moment When The Creator Saw And Held The Hidden Likeness.

Progress Is The Exploration Of Our Own Error. Evolution Is A Consolidation Of What Have Always Begun As Errors. And Errors Are Of Two Kinds: Errors That Turn Out To Be True And Errors That Turn Out To Be False (which Are Most Of Them). But They Both Have The Same Character Of Being An Imaginative Speculation. I Say All This Because I Want Very Much To Talk About The Human Side Of Discovery And Progress, And It Seems To Me Terribly Important To Say This In An Age In Which Most Non-scientists Are Feeling A Kind Of Loss Of Nerve.

To Imagine Is The Characteristic Act, Not Of The Poet's Mind, Or The Painter's, Or The Scientist's, But Of The Mind Of Man.

The World Is Made Up Of People Who Never Quite Get Into The First Team And Who Just Miss The Prizes At The Flower Show.

Science Is A Tribute To What We Can Know, Although We Are Fallible.