In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principle.

The book, like the bicycle, is a perfect form.

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

History, like a vast river, propels logs, vegetation, rafts, and debris; it is full of live and dead things, some destined for resurrection; it mingles many waters and holds in solution invisible substances stolen from distant soils.

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment

Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap

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.