There has never been a great book or a powerful work of art which has not been thought immoral by those with an older tradition. - Jacob Bronowski

There are three creative ideas which, each in its turn, have been central to science. They are the idea of order, the idea of causes, and the idea of chance.

We are all afraid - for our confidence, for the future, for the world. That is the nature of the human imagination. Yet every man, every civilization, has gone forward because of its engagement with what it has set itself to do. The personal commitment of a man to his skill, the intellectual commitment and the emotional commitment working together as one, has made the Ascent of Man.

[Talk to Esau about his children] : The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.