The Problem [of Specialization] Is Essentially That

The Problem [of Specialization] Is Essentially That Of Communications To An Army In Action. After A Rapid Advance Communications Become Disorganized, And There Is A Temporary Halting Until They Are Again In Working Order.

In Fact, We Will Have To Give Up Taking Things For Granted, Even The Apparently Simple Things. We Have To Learn To Understand Nature And Not Merely To Observe It And Endure What It Imposes On Us. Stupidity, From Being An Amiable Individual Defect, Has Become A Social Crime.

The Greater The Man, The More He Is Soaked In The Atmosphere Of His Time; Only Thus Can He Get A Wide Enough Grasp Of It To Be Able To Change Substantially The Pattern Of Knowledge And Action.

If Science Were Communism, Was It Also Not Possible That Communism Could Itself Become A Science?

The Beauty Of Life Is, Therefore, Geometrical Beauty Of A Type That Plato Would Have Much Appreciated.