Erwin Schrodinger has explained how he and his fellow physicists had agreed that they would report their new discoveries and experiments in quantum physics in the language of Newtonian physics. That is, they agreed to discuss and report the non-visual, electronic world in the language of the visual world of Newton.

The electric age ... established a global network that has much the character of our central nervous system.

In big industry new ideas are invited to rear their heads so they can be clobbered at once. The idea department of a big firm is a sort of lab for isolating dangerous viruses.

What goes on inside the school is an interruption of education.

Until writing was invented, man lived in acoustic space: boundless, directionless, horizonless, in the dark of the mind, in the world of emotion.

It is critical vision alone which can mitigate the unimpeded operation of the automatic.

There is a real, living unity in our time, as in any other, but it lies submerged under a superficial hubbub of sensation.