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

Scientific knowledge advances haltingly and is stimulated by contention and doubt.

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

Nor must we forget that in science there are no final truths.

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

The dogma of cultural relativism is challenged by the very people for whose moral benefit the anthropologists established it in the first place. The complaint the underdeveloped countries advance is not that they are being westernized, but that the westernization is proceeding too slowly.

The musical emotion springs precisely from the fact that at each moment the composer withholds or adds more or less than the listener anticipates on the basis of a pattern that he thinks he can guess, but that he is incapable of wholly divining. If the composer withholds more than we anticipate, we experience a delicious falling sensation; we feel we have been torn from a stable point on the musical ladder and thrust into the void. When the composer withholds less, the opposite occurs: he forces us to perform gymnastic exercises more skillful than our own.