The world is indeed only a small tide pool; disturb one part and the rest is threatened.

Creative thought must always contain a random component.

Official education was telling people almost nothing of the nature of all those things on the seashores, and in the redwood forests, in the deserts and in the plains.

The wise legislator will only rarely initiate a new rule of behaviour; more usually he will confine himself to affirming in law what has already become the custom of the people.

To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at least two sets of interactions in time.

Whatever the ups and downs of detail within our limited experience, the larger whole is primarily beautiful.

People are going to have to make themselves predictable, or the machines will get angry and kill them.