Now to investigate whether Being is one and motionless is not a contribution to the science of Nature.
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Believes in humanity, in a peaceful world of mutual helpfulness, and in the high mission of science.
Does there truly exist an insuperable contradiction between religion and science? Can religion be superseded by science?
That one body should act upon another through a vacuum without the mediation of anything else is so great an absurdity that no man suited to do science, can ever fall into it. Gravity must be caused by an agent, but whether that agent be material or immaterial I leave to my readers.
All the higher grades of science, imagination and intuition play an increasingly important role over and above intellect and its capacity for application.
It consisted essentially in a dialectical gymnastics which gave the symbol of speech, the word, an absolute meaning, so that words came in the end to have a substantiality with which the ancients could invest their logos only by attributing to it a mystical value. The great achievement of scholasticism was that it laid the foundations of a solidly built intellectual function, the sine qua non of modern science and technology.
No, our science is no illusion. But an illusion it would be to suppose that what science cannot give us we can get elsewhere.
Poets are masters of us ordinary men, in knowledge of the mind, because they drink at streams which we have not yet made accessible to science.
The view is often defended that sciences should be built up on clear and sharply defined basal concepts. In actual fact no science, not even the most exact, begins with such definitions. The true beginning of scientific activity consists rather in describing phenomena and then in proceeding to group, classify and correlate them.
It may be said that hysteria is as ignorant of the science of the structure of the nervous system as we ourselves before we have learnt it.
