Of course, our failures are a consequence of many factors, but possibly one of the most important is the fact that society operates on the theory that specialization is the key to success, not realizing that specialization precludes comprehensive thinking.

Doing the right things for the wrong reasons is typical of humanity. Precession - not conscious planning - provides a productive outcome for misguided political and military campaigns.

Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.

Geniuses are just people who had good mothers.

Seeing-is-believing is a blind spot in man's vision.

Our brains deal exclusively with special-case experiences.

The World has become too dangerous for anything less than Utopia.