Man Appears To Be The Missing Link

All Too Willingly Man Sees Himself As The Centre Of The Universe, As Something Not Belonging To The Rest Of Nature But Standing Apart As A Different And Higher Being. Many People Cling To This Error And Remain Deaf To The Wisest Command Ever Given By A Sage, The Famous "know Thyself" Inscribed In The Temple Of Delphi.

Philosophers Are People Who Know Less And Less About More And More, Until They Know Nothing About Everything. Scientists Are People Who Know More And More About Less And Less, Until They Know Everything About Nothing.

The Attitude Of The True Scientist Towards The Real Limits Of Human Understanding Was Unforgettably Impressed On Me In Early Youth By The Obviously Unpremeditated Words Of A Great Biologist; Alfred Kuhn Finished A Lecture To The Austrian Academy Of Science With Goethe 's Words, "it Is The Greatest Joy Of The Man Of Thought To Have Explored The Explorable And Then Calmly To Revere The Inexplorable." After The Last Word He Hesitated, Raised His Hand In Repudiation And Cried, Above The Applause, "no, Not Calmly, Gentlemen; Not Calmly!

The Rushed Existence Into Which Industrialized, Commercialized Man Has Precipitated Himself Is Actually A Good Example Of An Inexpedient Development Caused Entirely By Competition Between Members Of The Same Species. Human Beings Of Today Are Attacked By So-called Manager Diseases, High Blood Pressure, Renal Atrophy, Gastric Ulcers, And Torturing Neuroses: They Succumb To Barbarism Because They Have No More Time For Cultural Interests.

In Nature We Find Not Only That Which Is Expedient, But Also Everything Which Is Not So Inexpedient As To Endanger The Existence Of The Species.