History Is A Priori Amoral; It Has

Innovation Is A Twofold Threat To Academic Mediocrities: It Endangers Their Oracular Authority, And It Evokes The Deeper Fear That Their Whole, Laboriously Constructed Intellectual Edifice Might Collapse.

Chemically Induced Hallucinations, Delusions And Raptures May Be Frightening Or Wonderfully Gratifying; In Either Case They Are In The Nature Of Confidence Tricks Played On One's Own Nervous System.

If There Is A Lesson In Our Story It Is That The Manipulation, According To Strictly Self-consistent Rules, Of A Set Of Symbols Representing One Single Aspect Of The Phenomena May Produce Correct, Verifiable Predictions, And Yet Completely Ignore All Other Aspects Whose Ensemble Constitutes Reality.

Conscious And Unconscious Experiences Do Not Belong To Different Compartments Of The Mind; They Form A Continuous Scale Of Gradations, Of Degrees Of Awareness.

No Writer Or Teacher Or Artist Can Escape The Responsibility Of Influencing Others Whether He Intends To Or Not, Whether He Is Conscious Of It Or Not.