Humane Science Must Be Adapted To The

What Is Surprising Is That Almost All The Trends That Developed Within The Sciences, Aristotelianism And An Extreme Platonism Included, Produced Results, Not Only In Special Domains, But Everywhere; There Exist Highly Theoretical Branches Of Biology And Highly Empirical Parts Of Astrophysics. The World Is A Complex An Many-sided Thing.

The World We Inhabit Is Abundant Beyond Our Wildest Imagination. There Are Trees, Dreams, Sunrises; There Are Thunderstorms, Shadows, Rivers; There Are Wars, Flea Bites, Love Affairs; There Are The Lives Of People, Gods, Entire Galaxies. The Simplest Human Action Varies From One Person And Occasion To The Next-how Else Would We Recognize Our Friends Only From Their Gait, Posture, Voice, And Divine Their Changing Moods? Only A Tiny Fraction Of This Abundance Affects Our Minds. This Is A Blessing, Not A Drawback.

Rational Discourse Is Only One Way Of Presenting And Examining An Issue And By No Means The Best. Our New Intellectuals Are Not Aware Of Its Limitations And Of The Nature Of The Things Outside.

Every Profession Has An Ideology And A Drive For Power That Goes Far Beyond Its Achievements And It Is The Task Of Democracy To Keep This Ideology And This Drive Under Control. Science Is Here No Different From Other Institutions.

Facts Are Constituted By Older Ideologies, And A Clash Between Facts And Theories May Be Proof Of Progress.