Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity.

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

When a chess player looks at the board, he does not see a static mosaic, a 'still life', but a magnetic field of forces, charged with energy - as Faraday saw the stresses surrounding magnets and currents as curves in space; or as Van Gogh saw vortices in the skies of Provence.

Wars are not fought for territory, but for words. Man's deadliest weapon is language. He is as susceptible to being hypnotized by slogans as he is to infectious diseases. And where there is an epidemic, the group-mind takes over.

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

Chemically induced hallucinations, delusions and raptures may be frightening or wonderfully gratifying; in either case they are in the nature of confidence tricks played on one's own nervous system.

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.