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Has There Ever Been A Society Which Has Died Of Dissent? Several Have Died Of Conformity In Our Lifetime.

The Most Powerful Drive In The Ascent Of Man Is His Pleasure In His Own Skill. He Loves To Do What He Does Well And, Having Done It Well, He Loves To Do It Better. You See It In His Science. You See It In The Magnificence With Which He Carves And Builds, The Loving Care, The Gaiety, The Effrontery. The Monuments Are Supposed To Commemorate Kings And Religions, Heroes, Dogmas, But In The End The Man They Commemorate Is The Builder.

One Original Thought Is Worth The Sum Total Of Human Knowledge, Because It Advances The Sum Total Of Human Knowledge By That One Original Thought.

Da Vinci Was As Great A Mechanic And Inventor As Were Newton And His Friends. Yet A Glance At His Notebooks Shows Us That What Fascinated Him About Nature Was Its Variety, Its Infinite Adaptability, The Fitness And The Individuality Of All Its Parts. By Contrast What Made Astronomy A Pleasure To Newton Was Its Unity, Its Singleness, Its Model Of A Nature In Which The Diversified Parts Were Mere Disguises For The Same Blank Atoms.

A Genius Is A Man Who Has Two Great Ideas.