Science Is A Tribute To What We

One Original Thought Is Worth The Sum Total Of Human Knowledge, Because It Advances The Sum Total Of Human Knowledge By That One Original Thought.

The World Is Made Up Of People Who Never Quite Get Into The First Team And Who Just Miss The Prizes At The Flower Show.

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

By The Worldly Standards Of Public Life, All Scholars In Their Work Are Of Course Oddly Virtuous. They Do Not Make Wild Claims, They Do Not Cheat, They Do Not Try To Persuade At Any Cost, They Appeal Neither To Prejudice Nor To Authority . . .

When Da Vinci Wanted An Effect, He Willed, He Planned The Means To Make It Happen: That Was The Purpose Of His Machines. But The Machines Of Newton ... Are Means Not For Doing But For Observing. He Saw An Effect, And He Looked For Its Cause.