Science Has Nothing To Be Ashamed Of

We Are A Scientific Civilization. That Means A Civilization In Which Knowledge And Its Integrity Are Crucial. Science Is Only A Latin Word For Knowledge ... Knowledge Is Our Destiny.

The Most Powerful Drive In The Ascent Of Man Is His Pleasure In His Own Skill. He Loves To Do What He Does Well And, Having Done It Well, He Loves To Do It Better. You See It In His Science. You See It In The Magnificence With Which He Carves And Builds, The Loving Care, The Gaiety, The Effrontery. The Monuments Are Supposed To Commemorate Kings And Religions, Heroes, Dogmas, But In The End The Man They Commemorate Is The Builder.

Nature Has Not Fitted Man To Any Specific Environment.

Mass, Time , Magnetic Moment, The Unconscious: We Have Grown Up With These Symbolic Concepts, So That We Are Startled To Be Told That Man Had Once To Create Them For Himself. He Had Indeed, And He Has: For Mass Is Not An Intuition In The Muscle, And Time Is Not Bought Ready-made At The Watchmaker's.

Knowledge Is Not A Loose-leaf Notebook Of Facts. Above All, It Is A Responsibility For The Integrity Of What We Are, Primarily Of What We Are As Ethical Creatures.