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Just Because An Idea Is True Doesn't Mean It Can Be Proved. And Just Because An Idea Can Be Proved Doesn't Mean It's True.

We Travel Because We Need To, Because Distance And Difference Are The Secret Tonic Of Creativity. When We Get Home, Home Is Still The Same. But Something In Our Mind Has Been Changed, And That Changes Everything. Several New Science Papers Suggest That Getting Away Is An Essential Habit Of Effective Thinking. When We Escape From The Place We Spend Most Of Our Time, The Mind Is Suddenly Made Aware Of All Those Errant Ideas We'd Previously Suppressed. We Start Thinking About Obscure Possibilitiebsthat Never Would Have Occurred To Us If We'd Stayed Home.

It Is Ironic But True: The One Reality Science Cannot Reduce Is The Only Reality We Will Ever Know. This Is Why We Need Art. By Expressing Our Actual Experience, The Artist Reminds Us That Our Science Is Incomplete, That No Map Of Matter Will Ever Explain The Immateriality Of Our Consciousness.

Rejection Process Is Not Fun. It's The Red Pen On The Page, The Discarded Sketch, Sometimes Is The Only Way Forward.

The Great Ages Did Not Perhaps Produce Much More Talent Than Ours,' [t.s.] Eliot Wrote. 'but Less Talent Was Wasted.