Not so many years ago there was no simpler or more intelligible notion than that of going on a journey. Travel -movement through space -provided the universal metaphor for change. One of the subtle confusions -perhaps one of the secret terrors -of modern life is that we have lost this refuge. No longer do we move through space as we once did.

The computer can help us find what we know is there. But the book remains our symbol and our resource for the unimagined question and the unwelcome answer.

Any government which made the welfare of men depend on the character of their governors was an illusion.

An enamored amateur need not be a genius to stay out of the ruts he has never been trained in.

When I was living in England I found that the more I lived abroad, the more American I discovered I was.

We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.

Throught human history, illusions of knowledge, not ignorance, have proven to be the principal obstacles to discovery