The great flood was the seventeenth century. That was the time of change, the hanging moment of instability in which men like Cromwell and Newton cou… - Jacob Bronowski

Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which is penetrated through and through by science and which is both whole and real. We cannot turn it into a game simple by taking sides.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

We cannot change our character, we can only enlarge it. If we are wise, then we go on learning all through life, and go on fitting what is new to what we have learnt before, piece by piece.