Science, Nietzsche had warned, is becoming a factory, and the result will be ethical nihilism.

Creativity is the process of bringing something new into being.

Real freedom is the ability to pause between stimulus and response, and in that pause, choose.

What is courage? This courage will not be the opposite of despair. We shall often be faced with despair, as indeed every sensitive person has been during the last several decades in this country. Hence Kierkegaard and Nietzsche and Camus and Sartre have proclaimed that courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

What Kierkegaard said about love is also true of creativity: every person must start at the beginning.

Creativity is the result of a struggle between vitality and form. As anyone who has tried to write a sonnet or scan poetry, is aware, the form ideally do not take away from the creativity but may add to it.

It is interesting to note how many of the great scientific discoveries begin as myths.