All Science Is The Search For Unity

The Human Baby, The Human Being, Is A Mosaic Of Animal And Angel.

Progress Is The Exploration Of Our Own Error. Evolution Is A Consolidation Of What Have Always Begun As Errors. And Errors Are Of Two Kinds: Errors That Turn Out To Be True And Errors That Turn Out To Be False (which Are Most Of Them). But They Both Have The Same Character Of Being An Imaginative Speculation. I Say All This Because I Want Very Much To Talk About The Human Side Of Discovery And Progress, And It Seems To Me Terribly Important To Say This In An Age In Which Most Non-scientists Are Feeling A Kind Of Loss Of Nerve.

Every Judgment In Science Stands On The Edge Of Error, And Is Personal.

Fifty Years From Now If An Understanding Of Man's Origins, His Evolution, His History, His Progress Is Not In The Common Place Of The School Books We Shall Not Exist.

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