I set out to show that there exists single creative activity,which is displayed alike in the arts and in the sciences.It is wrong to think of science as a mechanical record of facts, and it is wrong to think of the arts as remote and private fancies. What makes each human, what makes them universal, is the stamp of the creative mind.

In the moment of appreciation we live again the moment when the creator saw and held the hidden likeness.

Man masters nature not by force but by understanding. This is why science has succeeded where magic failed: because it has looked for no spell to cast over nature.

The hand is the cutting edge of the mind.

It is a mistake to think of creative activity as something unusual

The most powerful drive in the ascent of man is his pleasure in his own skill. He loves to do what he does well. And having done it well, he loves to do it better.

The basis for poetry and scientific discovery is the ability to comprehend the unlike in the like and the like in the unlike.