Knowledge Is Not A Loose Leaf Notebook

Knowledge Is Not A Loose Leaf Notebook Of Facts.

Man Masters Nature Not By Force, But By Understanding

The Painter's Portrait And The Physicist's Explanation Are Both Rooted In Reality, But They Have Been Changed By The Painter Or The Physicist Into Something More Subtly Imagined Than The Photographic Appearance Of Things.

The Act Of Imagination Is The Opening Of The System So That It Shows New Connections. Every Act Of Act Of Imagination Is The Discovery Of Likenesses Between Two Things Which Were Thought Unlike. An Example Is Newton’s Thinking Of The Likeness Between The Thrown Apple And Moon Sailing Majestically In The Sky. Hence, The ‘discovery’ Of The Laws Of Gravity.

Dream Or Nightmare, We Have To Live Our Experience As It Is, And We Have To Live It Awake. We Live In A World Which Is Penetrated Through And Through By Science And Which Is Both Whole And Real. We Cannot Turn It Into A Game Simple By Taking Sides.