To try to reform all the power structures at once would leave us with no power structure to use in our project. In any case, we will be able to see that absolute moral renewal could be attempted only by an absolute power and that a tyrannous force such as this must destroy the whole moral life of man, not renew it.

Theories of evolution must provide for the creative acts which brought such theories into existence.

Human beings exercise responsibilities within a social setting and a framework of obligations which transcend the principle of intelligence.

But even physics cannot be defined from an atomic topography.

A free society is regarded as one that does not engage, on principle, in attempting to control what people find meaningful, and a totalitarian society is regarded as one that does, on principle, attempt such control.

We could not, for example, arrive at a principle like that of entropy without introducing some additional principle, such as randomness, to this topography.

I hold that the propositions embodied in natural science are not derived by any definite rule from the data of experience, and that they can neither be verified nor falsified by experience according to any definite rule.