One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

The final goal of human effort is man's self-transforma tion.

Order and creativity are complementary.

Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.

The convenience of timekeeping is greatly overrated; and the people who practice it so faithfully that they lose the capacity for appreciating the fixed and the static and the spatially related experiences cut themselves off from a good part of reality.

A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.

The artist does not illustrate science; ... [but] he frequently responds to the same interests that a scientist does, and expresses by a visual synthesis what the scientist converts into analytical formulae or experimental demonstrations.