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.

You never step in the same river of thought twice, because neither you nor it are the same.

Simple English is no one’s mother tongue. It has to be worked for.

By the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

Tennis belongs to the individualistic past - a hero, or at most a pair of friends or lovers, against the world.

Boredom and fatigue are great historical forces.