In Ordinary Speech The Words Perception And

Science Is, In The Best And Strictest Sense, Glorious Entertainment

Let Us Face A Pluralistic World In Which There Are No Universal Churches, No Single Remedy For All Diseases, No One Way To Teach Or Write Or Sing, No Magic Diet, No World Poets, And No Chosen Races, But Only The Wretched And Wonderfully Diversified Human Race.

Of True Knowledge At Any Time, A Good Part Is Merely Convenient, Necessary Indeed To The Worker, But Not To An Understanding Of His Subject: One Can Judge A Building Without Knowing Where To Buy The Bricks; One Can Understand A Violin Sonata Without Knowing How To Score For The Instrument. The Work May In Fact Be Better Understood Without A Knowledge Of The Details Of Its Manufacture, Of Attention To These Tends To Distract From Meaning And Effect.

One Great Aim Of Revision Is To Cut Out. In The Exuberance Of Composition It Is Natural To Throw In - As One Does In Speaking - A Number Of Small Words That Add Nothing To Meaning But Keep Up The Flow And Rhythm Of Thought. In Writing, Not Only Does This Surplusage Not Add To Meaning, It Subtracts From It. Read And Revise, Reread And Revise, Keeping Reading And Revising Until Your Text Seems Adequate To Your Thought.

The Book, Like The Bicycle, Is A Perfect Form.