Doubting Everything And Believing Everything Are Two

A Very Small Cause, Which Escapes Us, Determines A Considerable Effect Which We Cannot Ignore, And We Say That This Effect Is Due To Chance.

Tolstoi Explains Somewhere In His Writings Why, In His Opinion, “science For Science's Sake” Is An Absurd Conception. We Cannot Know All The Facts, Since They Are Practically Infinite In Number. We Must Make A Selection. Is It Not Better To Be Guided By Utility, By Our Practical, And More Especially Our Moral, Necessities?

Just As Houses Are Made Of Stones, So Is Science Made Of Facts.

A Sane Mind Should Not Be Guilty Of A Logical Fallacy, Yet There Are Very Fine Minds Incapable Of Following Mathematical Demonstrations.

This Harmony That Human Intelligence Believes It Discovers In Nature - Does It Exist Apart From That Intelligence? No, Without Doubt, A Reality Completely Independent Of The Spirit Which Conceives It, Sees It Or Feels It, Is An Impossibility. A World So Exterior As That, Even If It Existed, Would Be Forever Inaccessible To Us. But What We Call Objective Reality Is, In The Last Analysis, That Which Is Common To Several Thinking Beings, And Could Be Common To All; This Common Part, We Will See, Can Be Nothing But The Harmony Expressed By Mathematical Laws.