We Cannot Appreciate The Art Of Any

It Is Not Clear To Anyone, Least Of All The Practitioners, How Science And Technology In Their Headlong Course Do Or Should Influence Ethics And Law, Education And Government, Art And Social Philosophy, Religion And The Life Of The Affections. Yet Science Is An All-pervasive Energy, For It Is At Once A Mode Of Thought, A Source Of Strong Emotion, And A Faith As Fanatical As Any In History.

In Producers, Loafing Is Productive; And No Creator, Of Whatever Magnitude, Has Ever Been Able To Skip That Stage, Any More Than A Mother Can Skip Gestation.

Schools Are Not Intended To Moralize A Wicked World, But To Impart Knowledge And Develop Intelligence, With Only Two Social Aims In Mind: Prepare To Take On One's Share In The World's Work, And Perhaps In Addition, Lend A Hand In Improving Society, After Schooling Is Done.

For The Educated, The Authority Of Science Rested On The Strictness Of Its Methods; For The Mass, It Rested On The Powers Of Explanation.

[t]hat Is The Triumph Of History - Truth Absolute Is Not At Hand; The Original With Which To Match The Copy Does Not Exist.