It is not clear to anyone, least of all the practitioners, how science and technology in their headlong course do or should influence ethics and law, education and government, art and social philosophy, religion and the life of the affections. Yet science is an all-pervasive energy, for it is at once a mode of thought, a source of strong emotion, and a faith as fanatical as any in history.
Jacques BarzunIn any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.
Jacques BarzunThe history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.
Jacques BarzunThe mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.
Jacques Barzun