Knowledge Is Not A Loose Leaf Notebook

To Imagine Is The Characteristic Act, Not Of The Poet's Mind, Or The Painter's, Or The Scientist's, But Of The Mind Of Man.

Astronomy Is Not The Apex Of Science Or Of Invention. But It Is A Test Of The Cast Of Temperament And Mind That Underlies A Culture.

Man Is A Singular Creature. He Has A Set Of Gifts Which Make Him Unique Among The Animals, So That Unlike Them, He Is Not A Figure In The Landscape, He Is The Shaper Of The Landscape.

Science Is The Acceptance Of What Works And The Rejection Of What Does Not. That Needs More Courage Than We Might Think.

Man Is Not The Most Majestic Of The Creatures; Long Before The Mammals Even, The Dinosaurs Were Far More Splendid. But He Has What No Other Animal Possesses: A Jigsaw Of Faculties, Which Alone, Over Three Thousand Million Years Of Life, Made Him Creative. Every Animal Leaves Traces Of What He Was. Man Alone Leaves Traces Of What He Created.