Man Masters Nature Not By Force, But

The Symbol And The Metaphor Are As Necessary To Science As To Poetry.

The Preoccupation With The Choice Of A Mate Both By Male And Female I Regard As A Continuing Echo Of The Major Selective Force By Which We Have Evolved.

Science Is A Very Human Form Of Knowledge. We Are Always At The Brink Of The Known; We Always Feel Forward For What Is To Be Hoped. Every Judgment In Science Stands On The Edge Of Error And Is Personal. Science Is A Tribute To What We Can Know Although We Are Fallible.

The Problem Of Values Arises Only When Men Try To Fit Together Their Need To Be Social Animals With Their Need To Be Free Men. There Is No Problem, And There Are No Values, Until Men Want To Do Both. If An Anarchist Wants Only Freedom, Whatever The Cost, He Will Prefer The Jungle Of Man At War With Man. And If A Tyrant Wants Only Social Order, He Will Create The Totalitarian State.

A Man Becomes Creative, Whether He Is An Artist Or Scientist, When He Finds A New Unity In The Variety Of Nature. He Does So By Finding A Likeness Between Things Which Were Not Thought Alike Before.