Lancelot Law Whyte - Accent on form (1954)

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We are indeed a blind race, and the next generation, blind to its own blindness, will be amazed at ours.

Lancelot Law Whyte

In the vast tapestry of human experience there is nothing so extraordinary, or so challenging to human understanding as the process by which in a partly haphazard world of inorganic materials exploited their own laws so that organisms came into existence, and a cumulative process was started that led to the appearance of man.

Lancelot Law Whyte

Science does not begin with facts; one of its tasks is to uncover the facts by removing misconceptions.

Lancelot Law Whyte

The true aim of science is to discover a simple theory which is necessary and sufficient to cover the facts, when they have been purified of traditional prejudices.

Lancelot Law Whyte

Science starts with an assumption which is always present, though it may be unconscious, may be forgotten, and may sometimes even be denied.

Lancelot Law Whyte