The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

We receive experience from nature in a series of messages. From these messages we extract a content of information: that is, we decode the messages in some way. And from this code of information we then make a basic vocabulary of concepts and a basic grammar of laws, which jointly describe the inner organization that nature translates into the happenings and the appearances we meet.

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

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

Whether our work is art or science or the daily work of society, it is only the form in which we explore our experience which is different.

The child is not a prisoner of its inheritance; it holds its inheritance as a new creation which its future actions will unfold.

The Principle of Tolerance, fixed once for all the realization that all knowledge is limited. It is an irony of history that at the very time when this was being worked out, there should rise, under Hitler in Germany and other tyrants elsewhere, a counter-conception: a principle of monstrous certainty. When the future looks back on the 1930's, it will think of them as a crucial confrontation of culture as I have been expounding it - the ascent of man against the throwback to the despots' belief that they have absolute certainty.