The scientist is not a person who gives the right answers, he is one who asks the right questions.

I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational.

All the essentials of humanity's artistic treasures can be found in New York.

Music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by few, and that it alone among all the languages unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable - these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods.

No contact with savage Indian tribes has ever daunted me more than the morning I spent with an old lady swathed in woolies who compared herself to a rotten herring encased in a block of ice.

The wise man doesn't give the right answers, he poses the right questions.

Understanding arises from reducing one type of reality into another.