A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.

Ask an impertinent question and you are on the way to the pertinent answer.

The world today is made, it is powered by science; and for any man to abdicate an interest in science is to walk with open eyes towards slavery.

The largest single step in the ascent of man is the change from nomad to village agriculture.

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

A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.