“To gauge the understanding and insight that metaphysics provides is to ask whether, in the final analysis, it helps us to cope with our world and harmonize our existence with nature, humanity, and ourselves, and leads to greater freedom and self-realization. Metaphysics is only the beginning. The end is human progress.” WorldHumansEndsSelfHelpingHumanityAsksUnderstandingExistenceGreaterProgressSocietyFinalsInsightSelf RealizationRealizationAnalysisOur WorldMetaphysicsHuman ProgressGauges Author:Rudolph Rummel
“Toward the end of his life, Gödel feared that he was being poisoned, and he starved himself to death. His theorem is one of the most extraordinary results in mathematics, or in any intellectual field in this century. If ever potential mental instability is detectable by genetic analysis, an embryo of someone with Kurt Gödel's gifts might be aborted.” IfsEndsMightResultsCenturyFieldsIntellectualMathematicsExtraordinaryAnalysisInstabilityTheoremsEmbryos Book:The Ascent of Science Source: The Ascent of Science