Nevertheless, the consuming hunger of the uncritical mind for what it imagines to be certainty or finality impels it to feast upon shadows in the prevailing famine of substance.

Science makes no pretension to eternal truth or absolute truth.

Pick the assumptions to pieces till the stuff they are made of is exposed to plain view - this is the cardinal rule for understanding the basis of our beliefs.

Fashion as King is sometimes a very stupid ruler.

The very basis of creative work is irreverence! The very basis of creative work is bold experimentation. There has never been a creator of lasting importance who has not also been an innovator.

I have always hated machinery, and the only machine I ever understood was a wheelbarrow, and that but imperfectly.

If "Number rules the universe" as Pythagoras asserted, Number is merely our delegate to the throne, for we rule Number.