It Is Perfectly Obvious That The Whole

When You See Something That Is Technically Sweet, You Go Ahead And Do It And You Argue About What To Do About It Only After You Have Had Your Technical Success. That Is The Way It Was With The Atomic Bomb.

Both The Man Of Science And The Man Of Art Live Always At The Edge Of Mystery, Surrounded By It. Both, As A Measure Of Their Creation, Have Always Had To Do With The Harmonization Of What Is New With What Is Familiar, With The Balance Between Novelty And Synthesis, With The Struggle To Make Partial Order In Total Chaos.... This Cannot Be An Easy Life.

It Is Perfectly Obvious That The Whole World Is Going To Hell. The Only Possible Chance That It Might Not Is That We Do Not Attempt To Prevent It From Doing So.

The Optimist Thinks This Is The Best Of All Possible Worlds. The Pessimist Fears It Is True.

Things Which Stimulate My Curiosity Are Pretty Far Removed From The Practical And Therefore From Classification.