Thanks for reading this piece on the philosophy of science Availle. You did a great job reading it.
PLOK 
I liked these quotes.
But this is not the only paradox which Einstein's theory carries, and, be it not forgotten, carries to success. The foregoing relates to its process. Its physical basis is the deduction, or generalization, or speculation, from the Michelson-Morley experiment — that each separate observer possesses his own peculiar notions and standards of space and time, which are incapable of telling him whether he is himself in motion, and which are not communicable to another so as to permit adjustment, except indeed as so far as the velocity of light appears to each under all circumstances the same.
Einstein has proved the irrelevance of this and all kindred theories and cautions by showing that, given the fundamental constant, all known features of gravitation may be foreseen exactly and calculated numerically from a coherent formula which asks for no mechanical model or diagram, no datum line in time or space, and no distinction in kind between them. His theory breaks through the 'dome of many coloured glass' with which Time 'stains the white radiance of eternity' But, we do not arrive at a perfectly white radiance. Something must remain to give us numerical results.
We have reached Kant's Ding an sich.
Einstein's work appears to me to show that it may be involved in the recesses of the nature of things in depths where our senses can never follow it. May he, not Is.
Mathematics no less than other aids to thought lives in a world where actuality is bartered for convenience. We must recognize the risk we take if we follow it; it may carry us farther than we are entitled to go. As time extends knowledge, it extends equally the unknown. We must be content to read the new page, as we read the old, with our finger-tips, like a blind man, not knowing what comes next.
Craig
Thanks, Availle!