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Until Politics Are A Branch Of Science, We Shall Do Well To Regard Political And Social Reforms As Experiments Rather Than Short-cuts To The Millennium.

Now, If The Cooperation Of Some Thousands Of Millions Of Cells In Our Brain Can Produce Our Consciousness, A True Singularity, The Idea Becomes Vastly More Plausible That The Cooperation Of Humanity, Or Some Sections Of It, May Determine What Comte Calls A Great Being.

My Practise As A Scientist Is Atheistic. That Is To Say, When I Set Up An Experiment I Assume That No God, Angel, Or Devil Is Going To Interfere With Its Course; And This Assumption Has Been Justified By Such Success As I Have Achieved In My Professional Career. I Should Therefore Be Intellectually Dishonest If I Were Not Also Atheistic In The Affairs Of The World. And I Should Be A Coward If I Did Not State My Theoretical Views In Public.

So Many New Ideas Are At First Strange And Horrible Though Ultimately Valuable That A Very Heavy Responsibility Rests Upon Those Who Would Prevent Their Dissemination.

There Are 400,000 Species Of Beetles On This Planet, But Only 8,000 Species Of Mammals.