Science means simply the aggregate of all the recipes that are always successful. All the rest is literature.

Science is a collection of successful recipes.

Science is feasible when the variables are few and can be enumerated; when their combinations are distinct and clear. We are tending toward the condition of science and aspiring to do it. The artist works out his own formulas; the interest of science lies in the art of making science.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

The power of verse stems from an indefinable harmony between when it says and what it is.

An artist never really finishes his work, he merely abandons it.

Though completely armed with knowledge and endowed with power, we are blind and impotent in a world we have equipped and organized-a world of which we now fear the inextricable complexity.