Observation Always Involves Theory.

A Scientist Naturally And Inevitably ... Mulls Over The Data And Guesses At A Solution. He Proceeds To Testing Of The Guess By New Data-predicting The Consequences Of The Guess And Then Dispassionately Inquiring Whether Or Not The Predictions Are Verified.

Not Until The Empirical Resources Are Exhausted, Need We Pass On To The Dreamy Realms Of Speculation.

Wisdom Cannot Be Directly Transmitted, And Does Not Readily Accumulate Through The Ages.

With Increasing Distance, Our Knowledge Fades, And Fades Rapidly. Eventually, We Reach The Dim Boundary-the Utmost Limits Of Our Telescopes. There, We Measure Shadows, And We Search Among Ghostly Errors Of Measurement For Landmarks That Are Scarcely More Substantial. The Search Will Continue. Not Until The Empirical Resources Are Exhausted, Need We Pass On To The Dreamy Realms Of Speculation.

We Do Not Know Why We Are Born Into The World, But We Can Try To Find Out What Sort Of A World It Is - At Least In Its Physical Aspects.