...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.

I see the creative accomplishments of which highly gifted humans are capable as special cases of the universal creative process, that game played by everyone against everyone else, from which wells up all that has never been before.

More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

...he who has seen the intimate beauty of nature cannot tear himself away from it again. He must become either a poet or a naturalist and, if his eyes are keen and his powers of observation sharp enough, he may well become both.

Man has been driven out of the paradise in which he could trust his instincts.

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Scientific truth is universal, because it is only discovered by the human brain and not made by it, as art is.