We now know from neural-net technology that when there are more connections between points in a system, and there is greater strength between these connections, there will be sudden leaps in intelligence, where intelligence is defined as success rate in performing a task.

Not everything is immediately good to those who seek God; but everything is capable of becoming good.

More primordial than any idea, beauty will be manifest as the herald and generator or ideas.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.

Specialisation paralyses, ultra-specialisation kills. Palaeontology is littered with such catastrophes.

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

The Age of Nations is past. The task before us now, if we would not perish, is to build the Earth.