In Creating The Human Brain, Evolution Has

I Went To Communism As One Goes To A Spring Of Fresh Water, And I Left Communism As One Clambers Out Of A Poisoned River Strewn With The Wreckage Of Flooded Cities And The Corpses Of The Drowned.

If Time Is Treated In Modern Physics As A Dimension On A Par With The Dimensions Of Space, Why Should We A Priori Exclude The Possibility That We Are Pulled As Well As Pushed Along Its Axis? The Future Has, After All, As Much Or As Little Reality As The Past, And There Is Nothing Logically Inconceivable In Introducing, As A Working Hypothesis, An Element Of Finality, Supplementary To The Element Of Causality, Into Our Equations. It Betrays A Great Lack Of Imagination To Believe That The Concept Of "purpose" Must Necessarily Be Associated With Some Anthropomorphic Deity.

The Purposiveness Of All Vital Processes, The Strategy Of The Genes And The Power Of The Exploratory Drive In Animal And Man, All Seem To Indicate That The Pull Of The Future Is As Real As The Pressure Of The Past.

The Moment Of Truth, The Sudden Emergence Of A New Insight, Is An Act Of Intuition.

History Is A Priori Amoral; It Has No Conscience.