Certainty Ends Inquiry.

The Air In A Man's Lungs 10,000,000,000, 000,000,000,000 Atoms, So That Sooner Or Later Every One Of Us Breathes An Atom That Has Been Breathed Before By Anyone You Can Think Of Who Has Ever Lived - Michelangelo Or George Washington Or Moses.

To Me, Being An Intellectual Doesn't Mean Knowing About Intellectual Issues; It Means Taking Pleasure In Them.

Man Is A Singular Creature. He Has A Set Of Gifts Which Make Him Unique Among The Animals, So That Unlike Them, He Is Not A Figure In The Landscape, He Is The Shaper Of The Landscape.

When Coleridge Tried To Define Beauty, He Returned Always To One Deep Thought; Beauty, He Said, Is Unity In Variety! Science Is Nothing Else Than The Search To Discover Unity In The Wild Variety Of Nature,-or, More Exactly, In The Variety Of Our Experience. Poetry, Painting, The Arts Are The Same Search, In Coleridge's Phrase, For Unity In Variety.

The Richness Of Human Life Is That We Have Many Lives, We Live The Events That Do Not Happen (and Some That Cannot) As Vividly As Those That Do, And If Thereby We Die A Thousand Deaths, That Is The Price We Pay...