Man … feels lost without the direction-finder provide by progress. - Richard M. Weaver

The aristocratic mind … is anti-analytical. It is concerned more with the status of being than with the demonstrable relationship of parts.

The theory of empiricism is plausible because it assumes that accuracy about small matters prepares the way for valid judgment about large ones. What happens, however, is that the judgments are never made. The pedantic empiricist, buried in his little province of phenomena, imagines that fidelity to it exempts him from concern with larger aspects of reality.

Now, with the general decay of religious faith, it is the scientists who must speak ex cathedra, whether they wish to or not.