History is a priori amoral; it has no conscience.

The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition.

Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the individual bits, but the successive patterns into which you arrange them, then break them up and rearrange them.

Creativity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

God seems to have left the receiver off the hook and time is running out.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.

Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half- cultures do not make a culture