The Value Of A Man Resides In

Everyone Sits In The Prison Of His Own Ideas; He Must Burst It Open, And That In His Youth, And So Try To Test His Ideas On Reality.

I Once Thought That If I Could Ask God One Question, I Would Ask How The Universe Began, Because Once I Knew That, All The Rest Is Simply Equations. But As I Got Older I Became Less Concerned With How The Universe Began. Rather, I Would Want To Know Why He Started The Universe. For Once I Knew That Answer, Then I Would Know The Purpose Of My Own Life.

Well, I Have Considered Myself To Be Very Fortunate In That I Have Been Able To Do Mostly Only That Which My Inner Self Told Me To Do... I Am Also Aware That I Do Receive Much Criticism From The Outside World For What I Do And Some People Actually Get Angry At Me. But This Does Not Really Touch Me Because I Feel That These People Do Not Live In He Same World As Do I.

I Believe That The Horrifying Deterioration In The Ethical Conduct Of People Today Stems From The Mechanization And Dehumanization Of Our Lives. A Disastrous By-product Of The Development Of The Scientific And Technical Mentality. We Are Guilty. Man Grows Cold Faster Than The Planet He Inhabits.

The Finest Emotion Of Which We Are Capable Is The Mystic Emotion. Herein Lies The Germ Of All Art And All True Science. Anyone To Whom This Feeling Is Alien, Who Is No Longer Capable Of Wonderment And Lives In A State Of Fear Is A Dead Man.