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

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

I wouldn't have seen it if I hadn't believed it.

Clear prose indicates the absence of thought.

The new is always made up of the old, or rather, what people see in the new is always the old thing. The rear-view mirror. The future of the future is the present, and this is something that people are terrified of.

Literacy, the visual technology, dissolved the tribal magic by means of its stress on fragmentation and specialization and created the individual.

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.