The Optimist Thinks This Is The Best

This World Of Ours Is A New World, In Which The Unit Of Knowledge, The Nature Of Human Communities, The Order Of Society, The Order Of Ideas, The Very Notions Of Society And Culture Have Changed, And Will Not Return To What They Have Been In The Past. What Is New Is New, Not Because It Has Never Been There Before, But Because It Has Changed In Quality.

Bertrand Russell Had Given A Talk On The Then New Quantum Mechanics, Of Whose Wonders He Was Most Appreciative. He Spoke Hard And Earnestly In The New Lecture Hall. And When He Was Done, Professor Whitehead, Who Presided, Thanked Him For His Efforts, And Not Least For 'leaving The Vast Darkness Of The Subject Unobscured'.

If We Must Live With A Perpetual Sense That The World And The Men In It Are Greater Than We And Too Much For Us, Let It Be The Measure Of Our Virtue That We Know This And Seek No Comfort.

Things Which Stimulate My Curiosity Are Pretty Far Removed From The Practical And Therefore From Classification.

We Know That The Wages Of Secrecy Are Corruption. We Know That In Secrecy Error, Undetected, Will Flourish And Subvert.