Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.

Every creative act involves...a new innocence of perception, liberated from the cataract of accepted belief.

Space-ships and time machines are no escape from the human condition. Let Othello subject Desdemona to a lie-detector test; his jealousy will still blind him to the evidence. Let Oedipus triumph over gravity; he won't triumph over his fate.

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 most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums.

If conquerors be regarded as the engine-drivers of History, then the conquerors of thought are perhaps the pointsmen who, less conspicuous to the traveler's eye, determine the direction of the journey.