One original thought is worth the sum total of human knowledge, because it advances the sum total of human knowledge by that one original thought.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

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

Dream or nightmare, we have to live our experience as it is, and we have to live it awake. We live in a world which is penetrated through and through by science and which is both whole and real. We cannot turn it into a game simple by taking sides.

Knowledge is an unending adventure at the edge of uncertainty.

The act of imagination is the opening of the system so that it shows new connections. Every act of act of imagination is the discovery of likenesses between two things which were thought unlike. An example is Newton’s thinking of the likeness between the thrown apple and moon sailing majestically in the sky. Hence, the ‘discovery’ of the laws of gravity.