Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

It's not so much that we're afraid of change or so in love with the old ways, but it's that place in between that we fear . . . . It's like being between trapezes. It's Linus when his blanket is in the dryer. There's nothing to hold on to.

Many artists have said that when life itself becomes fully conscious, art as we know it will vanish.

Real progress in understanding nature is rarely incremental. All important advances are sudden intuitions, new principles, new ways of seeing. We have not fully recognized this process of leaping ahead, however, in part because textbooks tend to tame revolutions...They describe the advances as if they had been logical in their day, not all shocking.

Things fall apart, so they can fall together at a higher level of order.

Those who have most at stake in the old culture, or are most rigid in their beliefs, try to summon people back to the old ideas.'

So long as we need to control other people, however benign our motives, we are captive to that need. In giving them freedom, we free ourselves.