Science Emerges From The Other Progressive Activities

Whether A Man Lives Or Dies In Vain Can Be Measured Only By The Way He Faces His Own Problems, By The Success Or Failure Of The Inner Conflict Within His Own Soul. And Of This No One May Know Save God.

Democracy Is A Small Hard Core Of Common Agreement, Surrounded By A Rich Variety Of Individual Differences.

A Conceptual Scheme Is Never Discarded Merely Because Of A Few Stubborn Facts With Which It Cannot Be Reconciled; A Conceptual Scheme Is Either Modified Or Replaced By A Better One, Never Abandoned With Nothing Left To Take Its Place.

Each Honest Calling, Each Walk Of Life, Has Its Own Elite, Its Own Aristocracy Based On Excellence Of Performance. . . . There Will Always Be The False Snobbery Which Tries To Place One Vocation Above Another. You Will Become A Member Of The Aristocracy In The American Sense Only If Your Accomplishments And Integrity Earn This Appellation.

There Is Only One Proved Method Of Assisting The Advancement Of Pure Science-that Of Picking Men Of Genius, Backing Them Heavily, And Leaving Them To Direct Themselves.