A light bulb creates an environment by its mere presence.

The medium, or process, of our time - electric technology is reshaping and restructuring patterns of social interdependence and every aspect of our personal life. It is forcing us to reconsider and re-evaluate practically every thought, every action.

The movie stars and matinee idols are put into the public domain by photography. They become dreams that money can buy. They can be bought and thumbed more easily than public prostitutes.

The ignorance of how to use knowledge stockpiles exponentially.

When two seemingly disparate elements are imaginatively poised put in apposition in new and unique ways, startling discoveries often result.

Invention is the mother of necessities.

Relativity theory forced the abandonment, in principle, of absolute space and absolute time.