Satire is not a social dynamite. But it is a social indicator: it shows that new men are knocking at the door.

All science is the search for unity in hidden likenesses.

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

Sex was invented as a biological instrument by (say) the green algae. But as an instrument in the ascent of man which is basic to his cultural evolution, it was invented by man himself.

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.

No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

Science, like art, is not a copy of nature but a re-creation of her.