To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness.

Nothing is yours. It is to use. It is to share. If you will not share it, you cannot use it.

It is only when science asks why, instead of simply describing how, that it becomes more than technology. When it asks why, it discovers Relativity. When it only shows how, it invents the atom bomb, and then puts its hands over its eye and says, My God what have I done?

No darkness lasts forever. And even there, there are stars.

Crankish attacks on the freedom to read are common at present. When backed and coordinated by organized groups, they become sinister.

To me the female principle is, or at least historically has been, basically anarchic. It values order without constraint, rule by custom not by force. It has been the male who enforces order, who constructs power structures, who makes, enforces, and breaks laws.

The model of modern Western civilization is the virus: the pure bit of information, which turns its environment into endless reproductions of itself.