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.

When people accept futility and the absurd as normal, the culture is decadent.

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

[T]hat is the triumph of history - truth absolute is not at hand; the original with which to match the copy does not exist.

Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.

Life is given us as a passion.

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.