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Order and Surprise

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Martin Gardner
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“We are in the position of a little child,” said Einstein in a press interview twenty years ago, “entering a huge library whose walls are covered to the ceiling with books in many different tongues. … The child does not understand the languages in which they are written. He notes a definite plan in the arrangement of the books, a mysterious order which he does not comprehend, but only dimly suspects.”

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Research Article
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Philosophy of Science , Volume 17 , Issue 1 , January 1950 , pp. 109 - 117
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Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1950

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References

1 Bertrand Russell, The ABC of Relativity, 1925.

2 Bertrand Russell, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, 1948, p. 285.

3 Sextus Empiricus, Outlines of Pyrrhonism, Book III, 18. A similar paragraph occurs in the same author's, Against the Physicists, Book 1, 203. Both references are to the Loeb Classical Library edition.

4 Bertrand Russell, The ABC of Relativity, 1925.

5 Gilbert Chesterton, The Man Who was Thursday, 1908.

6 Bertrand Russell, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, 1948, p. XII.

7 Bertrand Russell, Philosophy, 1927.

8 Gilbert Chesterton, Orthodoxy, 1927.

9 Ibid.

10 Ibid.

11 James Branch Cabell, The Cream of the Jest, 1917.

12 Bertrand Russell, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, 1948, p. 507.

13 William James, Varieties of Religious Experience, 1902.

14 Bertrand Russell, Human Knowledge: Its Scope and Limits, 1948, p. 245.

15 George Santayana, Ultimate Religion, an address reprinted in Obiter Scripta, 1936.