The Highest Court Is In The End

Anybody Who Has Been Seriously Engaged In Scientific Work Of Any Kind Realizes That Over The Entrance To The Gates Of The Temple Of Science Are Written The Words: 'ye Must Have Faith.'

Hitherto The Principle Of Causality Was Universally Accepted As An Indispensable Postulate Of Scientific Research, But Now We Are Told By Some Physicists That It Must Be Thrown Overboard. The Fact That Such An Extraordinary Opinion Should Be Expressed In Responsible Scientific Quarters Is Widely Taken To Be Significant Of The All-round Unreliability Of Human Knowledge. This Indeed Is A Very Serious Situation.

Modern Physics Has Taught Us That The Nature Of Any System Cannot Be Discovered By Dividing It Into Its Component Parts And Studying Each Part By Itself... We Must Keep Our Attention Fixed On The Whole And On The Interconnection Between The Parts. The Same Is True Of Our Intellectual Life. It Is Impossible To Make A Clear Cut Between Science, Religion, And Art. The Whole Is Never Equal Simply To The Sum Of Its Various Parts.

Those [scientists] Who Dislike Entertaining Contradictory Thoughts Are Unlikely To Enrich Their Science With New Ideas.

All Matter Originates And Exists Only By Virtue Of A Force.