ABSTRACT
SCIENCE tries to reach back to beginnings, but it can never reach the beginning. For if we picture a scientific beginning, that is to say, something simple in the way of matter and energy and mind, it is always open to some one to ask : But what was there before that? If the answer be there was nothing before that except itself, then we are saying that we can picture what is everlasting, which is far too daring a thing to say. If the answer be that before what we can picture there was a simpler something that we cannot picture, then we are confessing that we have not got back to the beginning. Thus science, as science, does not speak about the beginning, nor about the end either.
