Man is a singular creature. He has a set of gifts which make him unique among the animals, so that unlike them, he is not a figure in the landscape, he is the shaper of the landscape.

Man masters nature not by force, but by understanding

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

That series of inventions by which man from age to age has remade his environment is a different kind of evolution -- not biological, but cultural evolution . . . "The Ascent of Man.

Has there ever been a society which has died of dissent? Several have died of conformity in our lifetime.

Science has nothing to be ashamed of even in the ruins of Nagasaki. The shame is theirs who appeal to other values than the human imaginative values which science has evolved.

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