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The World Is Indeed Only A Small Tide Pool; Disturb One Part And The Rest Is Threatened.

Numbers Are The Product Of Counting. Quantities Are The Product Of Measurement. This Means That Numbers Can Conceivably Be Accurate Because There Is A Discontinuity Between Each Integer And The Next. Between Two And Three There Is A Jump. In The Case Of Quantity, There Is No Such Jump; And Because Jump Is Missing In The World Of Quantity, It Is Impossible For Any Quantity To Be Exact. You Can Have Exactly Three Tomatoes. You Can Never Have Exactly Three Gallons Of Water. Always Quantity Is Approximate.

We Do Not Know Enough About How The Present Will Lead Into The Future. We Shall Never Be Able To Say, "ha! My Perception, My Accounting For That Series, Will Indeed Cover Its Next And Future Components," Or "next Time I Meet With These Phenomena, I Shall Be Able To Predict Their Total Course."

It Is Impossible, In Principle, To Explain Any Pattern By Invoking A Single Quantity.

There Are Many Matters And Many Circumstances In Which Consciousness Is Undesirable And Silence Is Golden, So That Secrecy Can Be Used As A Marker To Tell Us That We Are Approaching The Holy.