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The Act Of Imagination Is The Opening Of The System So That It Shows New Connections. Every Act Of Act Of Imagination Is The Discovery Of Likenesses Between Two Things Which Were Thought Unlike. An Example Is Newton’s Thinking Of The Likeness Between The Thrown Apple And Moon Sailing Majestically In The Sky. Hence, The ‘discovery’ Of The Laws Of Gravity.

A Theory In Its Day Helps To Solve The Problems Of The Day.

There Are Three Creative Ideas Which, Each In Its Turn, Have Been Central To Science. They Are The Idea Of Order, The Idea Of Causes, And The Idea Of Chance.

I Call That Brilliant Sequence Of Cultural Peaks The Ascent Of Man.

The Problem Of Values Arises Only When Men Try To Fit Together Their Need To Be Social Animals With Their Need To Be Free Men. There Is No Problem, And There Are No Values, Until Men Want To Do Both. If An Anarchist Wants Only Freedom, Whatever The Cost, He Will Prefer The Jungle Of Man At War With Man. And If A Tyrant Wants Only Social Order, He Will Create The Totalitarian State.