The Psychology Of A Complex Mind Must

We Academic Scientists Move Within A Certain Sphere, We Can Go On Being Useless Up To A Point, In The Confidence That Sooner Or Later Some Use Will Be Found For Our Studies. The Mathematician, Of Course, Prides Himself On Being Totally Useless, But Usually Turns Out To Be The Most Useful Of The Lot. He Finds The Solution But He Is Not Interested In What The Problem Is: Sooner Or Later, Someone Will Find The Problem To Which His Solution Is The Answer.

The Present Aristocracy Of Western Culture, At The Very Moment When It Most Clearly Dominates The World, Is Being Imitated Rapidly And Successfully In Every Eastern Country.

The Question Of The Origin Of Life Is Essentially Speculative. We Have To Construct, By Straightforward Thinking On The Basis Of Very Few Factual Observations, A Plausible And Self-consistent Picture Of A Process Which Must Have Occurred Before Any Of The Forms Which Are Known To Us In The Fossil Record Could Have Existed.

As The Scene Of Life Would Be More The Cold Emptiness Of Space Than The Warm, Dense Atmosphere Of Planets, The Advantage Of Containing No Organic Material At All, So As To Be Independent Of Both These Conditions, Would Be Increasingly Felt.

The Region Of The Mysterious Is Rapidly Shrinking.