Both the man of science and the man of action live always at the edge of mystery, surrounded by it.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
From a purely positivist point of view, man is the most mysterious and disconcerting of all the objects met with by science.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery that we are trying to solve.
Man is a creative retrospection of nature upon itself.
Mystery is something that appeals to most everybody.
Don't you see what's at stake here? The ultimate aim of all science to penetrate the unknown. Do you realize we know less about the earth we live on than about the stars and the galaxies of outer space? The greatest mystery is right here, right under our feet.
Equipped with his five senses, man explores the universe around him and calls the adventure Science.
I believe that not everything we humans encounter in our lives can be neatly and convincingly tucked away inside the orderly cabinetry of science.
It is a curious thing: man, the centre and creator of all science, is the only object which our science has not yet succeeded in including in a homogeneous representation of the universe. We know the history of his bones, but no ordered place has yet been found in nature for his reflective intelligence.
The man of science, like the man of letters, is too apt to view mankind only in the abstract, selecting in his consideration only a single side of our complex and many-sided being.
Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of science. Man, in the collective sense, is the hero of Earth.