What Is Meaningful Cannot In Fact Be

I Began The Study Of Medicine, Impelled By A Desire For Knowledge Of Facts And Of Man. The Resolution To Do Disciplined Work Tied Me To Both Laboratory And Clinic For A Long Time To Come.

The Essence Of Philosophy Is Not The Possession Of The Truth But The Search For Truth. ... Philosophy Means To Be On The Way. Its Questions Are More Essential Than Its Answers, And Every Answer Becomes A New Question.

When In Our Isolation We See Our Lives Seeping Away As A Mere Succession Of Moments, Tossed Meaninglessly About By Accidents And Overwhelming Events; When We Contemplate A History That Seems To Be At An End, Leaving Only Chaos Behind It, Then We Are Impelled To Raise Ourselves Above History.

What Is Meaningful Cannot In Fact Be Isolated…. We Achieve Understanding Within A Circular Movement From Particular Facts To The Whole That Includes Them And Back Again From The Whole Thus Reached To The Particular Significant Facts.

On The Question Of The World As A Whole, Science Founders. For Scientific Knowledge The World Lies In Fragments, The More So The More Precise Our Scientific Knowledge Becomes.