Progress Is The Exploration Of Our Own

Science Has Nothing To Be Ashamed Of Even In The Ruins Of Nagasaki. The Shame Is Theirs Who Appeal To Other Values Than The Human Imaginative Values Which Science Has Evolved.

It Is A Mistake To Think Of Creative Activity As Something Unusual

By The Worldly Standards Of Public Life, All Scholars In Their Work Are Of Course Oddly Virtuous. They Do Not Make Wild Claims, They Do Not Cheat, They Do Not Try To Persuade At Any Cost, They Appeal Neither To Prejudice Nor To Authority, They Are Often Frank About Their Ignorance, Their Disputes Are Fairly Decorous, They Do Not Confuse What Is Being Argued With Race, Politics, Sex Or Age, They Listen Patiently To The Young And To The Old Who Both Know Everything. These Are The General Virtues Of Scholarship, And They Are Peculiarly The Virtues Of Science.

The Most Remarkable Discovery Made By Scientists Is Science Itself. The Discovery Must Be Compared In Importance With The Invention Of Cave-painting And Of Writing. Like These Earlier Human Creations, Science Is An Attempt To Control Our Surroundings By Entering Into Them And Understanding Them From Inside. And Like Them, Science Has Surely Made A Critical Step In Human Development Which Cannot Be Reversed. We Cannot Conceive A Future Society Without Science.

There Is A Social Injunction Implied In The Positivist And Analyst Methods. This Social Axiom Is That :;:;:;:;:;:; We Ought To Act In Such A Way That What Is True Can Be Verified To Be So.