99 per cent of your life recognises things without definition, a baby recognises its mother's face without having it defined. It's just an arbitrary rule this rule of definition that Socrates set down.

To live only for some future goal is shallow. It's the sides of the mountain that sustain life, not the top.

Traditional scientific method has always been at the very best, 20 - 20 hindsight. It's good for seeing where you've been. It's good for testing the truth of what you think you know, but it can't tell you where you ought to go.

Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

Art is anything you can do well. Anything you can do with quality.

One thing about pioneers that you don't hear mentioned is that they are invariably, by their nature, mess-makers. They go forging ahead, seeing only their noble, distant goal, and never notice any of the crud and debris they leave behind them.

Communism and socialism, programs for intellectual control over society ... fascism, a program for the social control of intellect.