We Need To Make A World In

It Is A Fascinating Fact That Father And Son Have Given The Most Striking Evidence For The Apparently Contradictory Properties Of The Electron: The Father Proving Its Character As A Particle, The Son Its Character As A Wave... Thomson Was Extremely Proud Of His Son's Success And Tried To Assimilate The New Results Into His Old Convictions.

The Human Race Has Today The Means For Annihilating Itself--either In A Fit Of Complete Lunacy, I.e., In A Big War...or By The Careless Handling Of Atomic Technology, Through A Slow Process Of Poisoning And Of Deterioration In Its Genetic Structure.

We Have Sought For Firm Ground And Found None. The Deeper We Penetrate, The More Restless Becomes The Universe; All Is Rushing About And Vibrating In A Wild Dance.

There Are Two Objectionable Types Of Believers: Those Who Believe The Incredible And Those Who Believe That 'belief' Must Be Discarded And Replaced By 'the Scientific Method.

I Believe There Is No Philosophical High-road In Science, With Epistemological Signposts. No, We Are In A Jungle And Find Our Way By Trial And Error, Building Our Road Behind Us As We Proceed.