Let's Not Pretend That Mental Phenomena Can

Rather, For All Objects And Experiences, There Is A Quantity That Has Optimum Value. Above That Quantity, The Variable Becomes Toxic. To Fall Below That Value Is To Be Deprived.

The World Is Indeed Only A Small Tide Pool; Disturb One Part And The Rest Is Threatened.

Science, Like Art, Religion, Commerce, Warfare, And Even Sleep, Is Based On Presuppositions. It Differs, However, From Most Other Branches Of Human Activity In That Not Only Are The Pathways Of Scientific Thought Determined By The Presuppositions Of The Scientists But Their Goals Are The Testing And Revision Of Old Presuppositions And The Creation Of New.

It Is To The Riddle Of The Sphinx That I Have Devoted Fifty Years Of Professional Life As An Anthropologist.

We Can Never Be Quite Clear Whether We Are Referring To The World As It Is Or To The World As We See It.