Progress Is The Exploration Of Our Own

By The Worldly Standards Of Public Life, All Scholars In Their Work Are Of Course Oddly Virtuous. They Do Not Make Wild Claims, They Do Not Cheat, They Do Not Try To Persuade At Any Cost, They Appeal Neither To Prejudice Nor To Authority, They Are Often Frank About Their Ignorance, Their Disputes Are Fairly Decorous, They Do Not Confuse What Is Being Argued With Race, Politics, Sex Or Age, They Listen Patiently To The Young And To The Old Who Both Know Everything. These Are The General Virtues Of Scholarship, And They Are Peculiarly The Virtues Of Science.

Dissent Is The Mark Of Freedom.

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

Fifty Years From Now If An Understanding Of Man's Origins, His Evolution, His History, His Progress Is Not In The Common Place Of The School Books We Shall Not Exist.

I Call That Brilliant Sequence Of Cultural Peaks The Ascent Of Man.