The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business in every generation is to reclaim a little more land, to add something to the extent and the solidity of our possessions.
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The unknown may be fundamentally unknowable in parts.
The foundation of morality is to have done, once and for all, with lying; to give up pretending to believe that for which there is no evidence, and repeating u…
Social progress means a checking of the cosmic, process at every step and the substitution for it of another, which may be called the ethical process; the end …
I am too much of a sceptic to deny the possibility of anything - especially as I am now so much occupied with theology - but I don't see my way to your conclus…
With every new answer unfolded, science has consistently discovered at least three new questions.
'Explanations are never the most interesting part of science.'
Basic research is when I'm doing what I don't know I'm doing.