The reason why research is like sculpting from memory is that in neither is there a concrete visible subject to copy directly. The subject - as sculptors themselves are fond of saying - is hidden in the block of material.
Jacques BarzunIf civilization has risen from the Stone Age, it can rise again from the Wastepaper Age.
Jacques BarzunBy the time I was 9, I had the conviction that everybody in the world was an artist except plumbers or people who delivered groceries.
Jacques BarzunSchools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work, and perhaps in addition, lend a hand in improving society, after schooling is done.
Jacques Barzun