A Free Society Is Regarded As One

I Hold That The Propositions Embodied In Natural Science Are Not Derived By Any Definite Rule From The Data Of Experience, And That They Can Neither Be Verified Nor Falsified By Experience According To Any Definite Rule.

We Do Not Accept A Religion Because It Offers Us Certain Rewards. The Only Thing That A Religion Can Offer Us Is To Be Just What It, In Itself, Is: A Greater Meaning In Ourselves, In Our Lives, And In Our Grasp Of The Nature Of Things...a Religion Exists For Us Only If, Like A Piece Of Poetry, It Carries Us Away. It Is Not In Any Sense A 'hypothesis.

Theories Of Evolution Must Provide For The Creative Acts Which Brought Such Theories Into Existence.

We Cannot Ultimately Specify The Grounds (either Metaphysical Or Logical Or Empirical) Upon Which We Hold That Our Knowledge Is True. Being Committed To Such Grounds, Dwelling In Them, We Are Projecting Ourselves To What We Believe To Be True From Or Through These Grounds. We Cannot Therefore See What They Are. We Cannot Look At Them Because We Are Looking With Them.

We Know More Than We Can Tell.