The Mind Uses Its Faculty For Creativity

Consider Now The Milky Way. Here Also We See An Innumerable Dust, Only The Grains Of This Dust Are No Longer Atoms But Stars; These Grains Also Move With Great Velocities, They Act At A Distance One Upon Another, But This Action Is So Slight At Great Distances That Their Trajectories Are Rectilineal; Nevertheless, From Time To Time, Two Of Them May Come Near Enough Together To Be Deviated From Their Course, Like A Comet That Passed Too Close To Jupiter. In A Word, In The Eyes Of A Giant, To Whom Our Suns Were What Our Atoms Are To Us, The Milky Way Would Only Look Like A Bubble Of Gas.

Sociology Is The Science With The Greatest Number Of Methods And The Least Results.

Doubt Everything Or Believe Everything: These Are Two Equally Convenient Strategies. With Either We Dispense With The Need For Reflection.

It May Happen That Small Differences In The Initial Conditions Produce Very Great Ones In The Final Phenomena. A Small Error In The Former Will Produce An Enormous Error In The Later. Prediction Becomes Impossible, And We Have The Fortuitous Phenomena.

All Great Progress Takes Place When Two Sciences Come Together, And When Their Resemblance Proclaims Itself, Despite The Apparent Disparity Of Their Substance.