The 'gallows' Are Not Only A Symbol

In The Meantime, The Educated Public Continues To Believe That Darwin Has Provided All The Relevant Answers By The Magic Formula Of Random Mutations Plus Natural Selection -quite Unaware Of The Fact That Random Mutations Turned Out To Be Irrelevant And Natural Selection Tautology.

Politics Can Be Relatively Fair In The Breathing Spaces Of History; At Its Critical Turning Points There Is No Other Rule Possible Than The Old One, That The End Justifies The Means.

When A Chess Player Looks At The Board, He Does Not See A Static Mosaic, A 'still Life', But A Magnetic Field Of Forces, Charged With Energy - As Faraday Saw The Stresses Surrounding Magnets And Currents As Curves In Space; Or As Van Gogh Saw Vortices In The Skies Of Provence.

Chemically Induced Hallucinations, Delusions And Raptures May Be Frightening Or Wonderfully Gratifying; In Either Case They Are In The Nature Of Confidence Tricks Played On One's Own Nervous System.

One Should Either Write Ruthlessly What One Believes To Be The Truth, Or Else Shut Up.