Science, Like Art, Is Not A Copy

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

A Genius Is A Man Who Has Two Great Ideas.

Man Is A Singular Creature. He Has A Set Of Gifts Which Make Him Unique Among The Animals, So That Unlike Them, He Is Not A Figure In The Landscape, He Is The Shaper Of The Landscape.

All Those Formal Systems, In Mathematics And Physics And The Philosophy Of Science, Which Claim To Give Foundations For Certain Truth Are Surely Mistaken. I Am Tempted To Say That We Do Not Look For Truth, But For Knowledge. But I Dislike This Form Of Words, For Two Reasons. First Of All, We Do Look For Truth, However We Define It, It Is What We Find That Is Knowledge. And Second, What We Fail To Find Is Not Truth, But Certainty; The Nature Of Truth Is Exactly The Knowledge That We Do Find.

The Richness Of Human Life Is That We Have Many Lives, We Live The Events That Do Not Happen (and Some That Cannot) As Vividly As Those That Do, And If Thereby We Die A Thousand Deaths, That Is The Price We Pay...