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. . . .

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

Not all poisonous juices are burning or bitter nor is everything which is burning and bitter poisonous.

I hate travelling and explorers

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

There is one fact that can be established. The only phenomenon which, always and in all parts of the world, seems to be linked with the appearance of writing

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.