By relieving the brain of all unnecessary work, a good notation sets it free to concentrate on more advanced problems, and in effect increases the mental power of the race.

But harmony is limitation. Thus rightness of limitation is essential for growth of reality. Unlimited possibility and abstract creativity can procure nothing.

To come very near to a true theory, and to grasp its precise application, are two different things, as the history of science teaches us. Everything of importance has been said before by someone who did not discover it.

Art is the imposing of a pattern on experience, and our aesthetic enjoyment is recognition of the pattern.

Error itself may be happy chance.

I consider Christian theology to be one of the great disasters of the human race.

The ultimate metaphysical ground is the creative advance into novelty.