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The Private Motives Of Scientists Are Not The Trend Of Science. The Trend Of Science Is Made By The Needs Of Society: Navigation Before The Eighteenth Century, Manufacture Thereafter; And In Our Age I Believe The Liberation Of Personality. Whatever The Part Which Scientists Like To Act, Or For That Matter Which Painters Like To Dress, Science Shares The Aims Of Our Society Just As Art Does.

Nature Has Not Fitted Man To Any Specific Environment.

Mass, Time , Magnetic Moment, The Unconscious: We Have Grown Up With These Symbolic Concepts, So That We Are Startled To Be Told That Man Had Once To Create Them For Himself. He Had Indeed, And He Has: For Mass Is Not An Intuition In The Muscle, And Time Is Not Bought Ready-made At The Watchmaker's.

Dissent Is The Mark Of Freedom.

Dream Or Nightmare, We Have To Live Our Experience As It Is, And We Have To Live It Awake. We Live In A World Which Is Penetrated Through And Through By Science And Which Is Both Whole And Real. We Cannot Turn It Into A Game Simple By Taking Sides.