The Survival Value Of Intelligence Is That

[to] Interpret Parmenides As A Kant Before Kant ... This Is Exactly What We Must Do.

You Cannot Have A Rational Discussion With A Man Who Prefers Shooting You To Being Convinced By You.

[the Aim Of Science Is] To Explain What So Far Has Taken To Be An Explicans, Such As A Law Of Nature. The Task Of Empirical Science Constantly Renews Itself. We May Go On Forever, Proceeding To Explanations Of A Higher And Higher Universality.

The Genuine Rationalist Does Not Think That He Or Anyone Else Is In Possession Of The Truth; Nor Does He Think That Mere Criticism As Such Helps Us Achieve New Ideas. But He Does Think That, In The Sphere Of Ideas, Only Critical Discussion Can Help Us Sort The Wheat From The Chaff.

Appealing To His [einstein's] Way Of Expressing Himself In Theological Terms, I Said: If God Had Wanted To Put Everything Into The Universe From The Beginning, He Would Have Created A Universe Without Change, Without Organisms And Evolution, And Without Man And Man's Experience Of Change. But He Seems To Have Thought That A Live Universe With Events Unexpected Even By Himself Would Be More Interesting Than A Dead One.