We may complain and cavil at the anarchy which is the amateurs natural element, but in soberness we must agree that if the amateur did not exist it would be necessary to invent him.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.

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.

Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.

Life is given us as a passion.

Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which is the best game of homo ludens: science is in the strictest and best sense a glorious entertainment.

The history of creation is but a succession of battles between amateurs of genius-inspired heretics- and orthodox professionals.