Prometheus is reaching out for the stars with an empty grin on his face. |
Scientists are peeping Toms at the keyhole of eternity |
The definition of the individual was: a multitude of one million divided by one million. |
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use |
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use |
The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use |
The moment of truth, the sudden emergence of a new insight, is an act of intuition. Such intuitions give the appearance of miraculous flushes, or short-circuits of reasoning. In fact they may be likened to an immersed chain, of which only the beginning and the end are visible above the surface of consciousness. The diver vanishes at one end of the chain and comes up at the other end, guided by invisible links. |
The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards. |
The most persistent sound which reverberates through men's history is the beating of war drums |
The prerequisite of originality is the art of forgetting, at the proper moment, what we know. |
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers. |
The progress of science is strewn, like an ancient desert trail, with the bleached skeleton of discarded theories which once seemed to possess eternal life. |
True creativity often starts where language ends. |
True creativity often starts where language ends. |
Two half-truths do not make a truth, and two half-cultures do not make a culture. |