If A Man Achieves Or Suffers Change

No Organism Can Afford To Be Conscious Of Matters With Which It Could Deal At Unconscious Levels. Broadly, We Can Afford To Sink Those Sorts Of Knowledge Which Continue To Be True Regardless Of Changes In The Environment, But We Must Maintain In An Accessible Place All Those Controls Of Behavior Which Must Be Modified For Every Instance. The Economics Of The System, In Fact, Pushes Organisms Toward Sinking Into The Unconscious Those Generalities Of Relationship Which Remain Permanently True And Toward Keeping Within The Conscious The Pragmatic Of Particular Instances.

If It Were Possible Adequately To Present The Whole Of A Culture, Stressing Every Aspect Exactly As Appears In The Culture Itself, No Single Detail Would Appear Bizarre Or Strange Or Arbitrary To The Reader, But Rather The Details Would All Appear Natural And Reasonable As They Do To The Natives Who Have Lived All Their Lives Within The Culture.

There Are Times When I Catch Myself Believing That There Is Such A Thing As Something; Which Is Separate From Something Else.

Whenever We Pride Ourselves Upon Finding A Newer, Stricter Way Of Thought Or Exposition … We Lose Something Of The Ability To Think New Thoughts. And Equally, Of Course, Whenever We Rebel Against The Sterile Rigidity Of Formal Thought And Exposition And Let Our Ideas Run Wild, We Likewise Lose. As I See It, The Advances In Scientific Thought Come From A Combination Of Lose And Strict Thinking, And This Combination Is The Most Precious Tool Of Science.

Evolution Has Long Been Badly Taught. In Particular, Students - And Even Professional Biologists - Acquire Theories Of Evolution Without Any Deep Understanding Of What Problem These Theories Attempt To Solve. They Learn But Little Of The Evolution Of Evolutionary Theory.