Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.

There will be I think an attempt to grasp again the surprise and accidents of nature and a more intimate and sympathetic study of its moods together with a renewed wonder and humility on the part of such as are still capable of these basic reactions.

Partial culture runs to the ornate extreme culture to simplicity.

You have to put in many many many tiny efforts that nobody sees or appreciates before you achieve anything worthwhile.

I wrote poems in my corner of the Brooks Street station. I sent them to two editors who rejected them right off. I read those letters of rejection years later and I agreed with those editors.

It feels good to finally get one of these close games.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

To the wicked everything serves as pretext.

To give birth is a fearsome thing, there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.

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