Knowledge Is Not A Loose Leaf Notebook

The Symbol And The Metaphor Are As Necessary To Science As To Poetry.

Knowledge Is Not A Loose-leaf Notebook Of Facts. Above All, It Is A Responsibility For The Integrity Of What We Are, Primarily Of What We Are As Ethical Creatures.

The Basis For Poetry And Scientific Discovery Is The Ability To Comprehend The Unlike In The Like And The Like In The Unlike.

We Are All Afraid For Our Confidence, For The Future, For The World. That Is The Nature Of The Human Imagination. Yet Every Man, Every Civilization, Has Gone Forward Because Of Its Engagement With What It Has Set Itself To Do.

To Imagine Is The Characteristic Act, Not Of The Poet's Mind, Or The Painter's, Or The Scientist's, But Of The Mind Of Man.