An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.
The term science means something quite different for our generation than it did not so many generations ago.
Magic--that's just a label, you know. Completely meaningless. It wasn't so very long ago that people were saying that electricity was magic.
We go in there and we work on altering those ideas and in many cases go in different directions.
Fundamental progress has to do with the reinterpretation of basic ideas.
A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics.
The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
The idea of what a feminist is has changed so much that there needs to be a new word for it.
Things can be translated, but they become different.
Nothing radically changes when instead of human satisfaction, we think of the satisfaction of some heavenly being! God's person displaces the problem and does not abolish it.
