Measured by any standard known to science--by horse-power, calories, volts, mass in any shape,--the tension and vibration and volu...me and so-called progression of society were full a thousand times greater in 1900 than in 1800;Mthe force had doubled ten times over, and the speed, when measured by electrical standards as in telegraphy, approached infinity, and had annihilated both space and time. No law of material movement applied to it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity throu...gh multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a boy's will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
At the rate science proceeds, rockets and missiles will one day seem like buffalo--slow, endangered grazers in the black pasture o...f outer space.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
And what avails it that science has come to treat space and time as simply forms of thought, and the material world as hypothetica...l, and withal our pretension of property and even of self-hood are fading with the rest, if, at last, even our thoughts are not finalities, but the incessant flowing and ascension reach these also, and each thought which yesterday was a finality, to-day is yielding to a larger generalization?LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like Christianity, modern science teaches that these things of the world of senses are not really real, but that there is a more r...eal reality, in Nature, behind these appearances, a permanent, unchanging reality in comparison to which the world of appearance is ever changing and is an accidental product of our sense organs. Unlike the "other world" of Christianity, which is world of spirit or mind, altogether without body, this "other world" of science is a world of matter, altogether without spirit, life, or mind. This ultimately real world is the world of particles (little bits of dead stuff), of space and time and of forces (gravitational, electromagnetic, and more recently the strong and weak nuclear forces).LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What a phenomenon it has been--science fiction, space fiction--exploding out of nowhere, unexpectedly of course, as always happens... when the human mind is being forced to expand; this time starwards, galaxy-wise, and who knows where next.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science--to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about t...he earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made... any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »