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The Only Way Of Learning The Method Of Science Is The Long And Bitter Way Of Personal Experience.

Men Will Not Be Content To Manufacture Life: They Will Want To Improve On It.

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.

One Of The Questions On Which Clarity Of Thinking Is Now Most Necessary Is That Of The Relation Between The Methods Of Science And Of Marxist Philosophy. Although Much Has Already Been Written On The Subject, Yet There Is Still An Enormous Amount Of Confusion And Contradictory Statement.

In Fact, We Will Have To Give Up Taking Things For Granted, Even The Apparently Simple Things. We Have To Learn To Understand Nature And Not Merely To Observe It And Endure What It Imposes On Us. Stupidity, From Being An Amiable Individual Defect, Has Become A Social Crime.