Nature Has Not Fitted Man To Any

The Most Powerful Drive In The Ascent Of Man Is His Pleasure In His Own Skill. He Loves To Do What He Does Well. And Having Done It Well, He Loves To Do It Better.

Science Is A Very Human Form Of Knowledge. We Are Always At The Brink Of The Known; We Always Feel Forward For What Is To Be Hoped. Every Judgment In Science Stands On The Edge Of Error And Is Personal. Science Is A Tribute To What We Can Know Although We Are Fallible.

We Gain Our Ends Only With The Laws Of Nature; We Control Her Only By Understanding Her Laws.

It Is Often Said That The Progression From Simple To Complex Runs Counter To The Normal Statistics Of Chance That Are Formalized In The Second Law Of Thermodynamics. Strictly Speaking, We Could Avoid This Criticism Simply By Insisting That The Second Law Does Not Apply To Living Systems In The Environment In Which We Find Them. For The Second Law Applies Only When There Is No Overall Flow Of Energy Into Or Out Of A System, Whereas All Living Systems Are Sustained By A Net Inflow Of Energy.

The Most Powerful Drive In The Ascent Of Man Is His Pleasure In His Own Skill. He Loves To Do What He Does Well And, Having Done It Well, He Loves To Do It Better. You See It In His Science. You See It In The Magnificence With Which He Carves And Builds, The Loving Care, The Gaiety, The Effrontery. The Monuments Are Supposed To Commemorate Kings And Religions, Heroes, Dogmas, But In The End The Man They Commemorate Is The Builder.