To Travel Hopefully Is Better Than To

Kant, Discussing The Various Modes Of Perception By Which The Human Mind Apprehends Nature, Concluded That It Is Specially Prone To See Nature Through Mathematical Spectacles. Just As A Man Wearing Blue Spectacles Would See Only A Blue World, So Kant Thought That, With Our Mental Bias, We Tend To See Only A Mathematical World.

The Stream Of Knowledge Is Heading Towards A Non-mechanical Reality; The Universe Begins To Look More Like A Great Thought Than Like A Machine. Mind No Longer Appears To Be An Accidental Intruder Into The Realm Of Matter...we Ought Rather Hail It As The Creator And Governor Of The Realm Of Matter.

We May As Well Cut Out Group Theory. That Is A Subject That Will Never Be Of Any Use In Physics.

The Motion Of The Stars Over Our Heads Is As Much An Illusion As That Of The Cows, Trees And Churches That Flash Past The Windows Of Our Train.

...nature Seems Very Conversant With The Rules Of Pure Mathematics, As Our Own Mathematicians Have Formulated Them In Their Studies, Out Of Their Own Inner Consciousness And Without Drawing To Any Appreciable Extent On Their Experience Of The Outer World.