The Ego Is As Little Absolutely Permanent

Strange As It May Sound, The Power Of Mathematics Rests On Its Evasion Of All Unnecessary Thought And On Its Wonderful Saving Of Mental Operations.

The Biological Task Of Science Is To Provide The Fully Developed Human Individual With As Perfect A Means Of Orientating Himself As Possible. No Other Scientific Ideal Can Be Realised, And Any Other Must Be Meaningless.

Thing, Body, Matter, Are Nothing Apart From The Combinations Of The Elements, - The Colours, Sounds, And So Forth - Nothing Apart From Their So-called Attributes.

Similarly, Many A Young Man, Hearing For The First Time Of The Refraction Of Stellar Light, Has Thought That Doubt Was Cast On The Whole Of Astronomy, Whereas Nothing Is Required But An Easily Effected And Unimportant Correction To Put Everything Right Again.

The Task Which We Have Set Ourselves Is Simply To Show Why And For What Purpose We Hold That Standpoint During Most Of Our Lives, And Why And For What Purpose We Are Provisionally Obliged To Abandon It.