The investigations which have seemingly been the most purely abstract have often formed the foundation of the most important changes or improvements in the conditions of human life.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
We must carefully examine change so that we are able to discard those aspects of change which would be detrimental to our way of life, and, at the same time, take advantage of those aspects of change which will enhance and improve our quality of life.
It is our task to inquire into the causes that have brought about the observed differentiation, and to investigate the sequence of events that have led to the establishment of the multifarious forms of human life.
What must be the nature of the world... if human beings are able to introduce changes into it?
Thus there arose in me both a need and a plan for the foundation of the human sciences.
The powers, aspirations, and mission of man are such as to raise the study of his origin and nature, inevitably and by the very necessity of the case, from the mere physiological to the psychological stage of scientific operations.
Our idea of nature is increasingly being determined by scientific developments. And they have become decisive for our image of reality.
The scientist's inquiry into the causes of things is providing an ever more extensive understanding of nature.
The rate of technological and human physiological change in the 20th century has been remarkable. Beyond that, a synergy between the improved technology and physiology is more than the simple addition of the two.
Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing.
The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.