We Cannot Pluck A Flower Witout Disturbing

This Is The Most Enormous Extension Of Vision Of Which Life Is Capable: The Projection Of Itself Into Other Lives. This Is The Lonely, Magnificent Power Of Humanity. It Is . . . The Supreme Epitome Of The Reaching Out.

It Is A Commonplace Of All Religious Thought, Even The Most Primitive, That The Man Seeking Visions And Insight Must Go Apart From His Fellows And Love For A Time In The Wilderness.

After Chiding The Theologian For His Reliance On Myth And Miracle, Science Found Itself In The Unenviable Position Of Having To Create Mythology Of Its Own: Namely, The Assumption That What, After Long Effort, Could Not Be Proved To Take Place Today Had, In Truth, Taken Place In The Primeval Past.

Every Man Contains Within Himself A Ghost Continent.

We Think We Learn From Teachers, And We Sometimes Do. But The Teachers Are Not Always To Be Found In School Or In Great Laboratories. Sometimes What We Learn Depends Upon Our Own Powers Of Insight.