While knowledge is orderly and cumulative, information is random and miscellaneous.
destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.
The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance - it is the illusion of knowledge.
. . . the messiness of experience, that may be what we mean by life.
A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.
The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.