So Many New Ideas Are At First

I Suppose The Process Of Acceptance Will Pass Through The Usual Four Stages: (i) This Is Worthless Nonsense; (ii) This Is An Interesting, But Perverse, Point Of View; (iii) This Is True, But Quite Unimportant; (iv) I Always Said So.

An Attempt To Study The Evolution Of Living Organisms Without Reference To Cytology Would Be As Futile As An Account Of Stellar Evolution Which Ignored Spectroscopy.

In Fact, Words Are Well Adapted For Description And The Arousing Of Emotion, But For Many Kinds Of Precise Thought Other Symbols Are Much Better.

We Do Not Know, In Most Cases, How Far Social Failure And Success Are Due To Heredity, And How Far To Environment. But Environment Is The Easier Of The Two To Improve.

Science Affects The Average Man And Woman In Two Ways Already. He Or She Benefits By Its Application Driving A Motor-car Or Omnibus Instead Of A Horse-drawn Vehicle, Being Treated For Disease By A Doctor Or Surgeon Rather Than A Witch, And Being Killed With An Automatic Pistol Or Shell In Place Of A Dagger Or A Battle-axe.