One Could Not Be A Successful Scientist

All Scientific Knowledge To Which Man Owes His Role As Master Of The World Arose From Playful Activities.

One Of The Most Dangerously Vicious Circles Menacing The Continued Existence Of All Mankind Arises Through That Grim Striving For The Highest Possible Position Within The Ranked Order, In Other Words, The Reckless Pursuit Of Power Which Combines With An Insatiable Greed Of Neurotic Proportions That The Results Of Acquired Power Confer.

I Believe That Both Art And The Human Striving For Cognitive Comprehension Are Manifest Forms Of The Grand Game In Which Nothing More Is Stipulated Than The Game's Rules; Both Art And Actively Solicited Perceptions Are But Special Cases Of The Recurring Creative Act To Which We Owe Our Existence.

Historians Will Have To Face The Fact That Natural Selection Determined The Evolution Of Cultures In The Same Manner As It Did That Of Species.

I Believe-and Human Psychologists, Particularly Psychoanalysts Should Test This-that Present-day Civilized Man Suffers From Insufficient Discharge Of His Aggressive Drive. It Is More Than Probable That The Evil Effects Of The Human Aggressive Drives, Explained By Sigmund Freud As The Results Of A Special Death Wish, Simply Derive From The Fact That In Prehistoric Times Intra-specific Selection Bred Into Man A Measure Of Aggression Drive For Which In The Social Order Today He Finds No Adequate Outlet.