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

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

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.

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

Grab a pen and put down some words - your name even - and a title: something to see, to revise, to carve, to do over in the opposite way

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition.

The mind tends to run along the groove of one's intention and overlook the actual expression.