The Disease Having Been Caused By Allowing

The Disease Having Been Caused By Allowing Cleverness To Displace Wisdom, No Amount Of Clever Research Is Likely To Produce A Cure.

The System Of Nature, Of Which Man Is A Part, Tends To Be Self-balancing, Self-adjusting, Self-cleansing. Not So With Technology.

Even Bigger Machines, Entailing Even Bigger Concentrations Of Economic Power And Exerting Ever Greater Violence Against The Environment, Do Not Represent Progress: They Are A Denial Of Wisdom. Wisdom Demands A New Orientation Of Science And Technology Towards The Organic, The Gentle, The Nonviolent, The Elegant And Beautiful.

If I Limit Myself To Knowledge That I Consider True Beyond Doubt, I Minimize The Risk Of Error But I Maximize, At The Same Time, The Risk Of Missing Out On What May Be The Subtlest, Most Important And Most Rewarding Things In Life.

The Modern World Tends To Be Skeptical About Everything That Makes Demands On Man's Higher Faculties. But It Is Not At All Skeptical About Skepticism, Which Demands Hardly Anything.