To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.

When the man who knows all about the fruit fly chromosomes finds himself sitting next to an authority on Beowulf, there may be an uneasy silence.
BRAND BLANSHARD

Flies Fruit Men Silence
Whether you choose a vacation or a spouse, a party or a candidate, a cause to contribute to or a creed to live by – think!
BRAND BLANSHARD

Choose Contribute Creed Live Vacation
I do not think that G. H. Hardy was talking nonsense when he insisted that the mathematician was discovering rather than creating, nor was it wholly nonsense for Kepler to exult that he was thinking God’s thoughts after him.
BRAND BLANSHARD

Discovery Science Thinking
To think at its best is to find oneself carried down the current of necessity.
BRAND BLANSHARD

Currents Oneself Thinking
Shakespeare without Othello, Lear, Macbeth and Hamlet would be all too much like Hamlet without the prince.
BRAND BLANSHARD

Character Prince Shakespeare
The world for me is a necessary system, and in the degree to which the thinker can surrender his thought to that system and follow it, he is in a sense participating in that which is timeless or eternal.
BRAND BLANSHARD

Eternal Follow Necessary Surendra System Timeless Word
If science could get rid of consciousness, it would have disposed of the only stumbling block to its universal application.
BRAND BLANSHARD

Block Consciousness Science

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