Synergy is the only word in our language that means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the separately observed behaviors of any of the system’s separate parts or any subassembly of the system’s parts.
Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.
Life is the spirit incarnate in time.
We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living.
Topology is the science of fundamental pattern and structural relationships of event constellations.
One of humanity’s prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
To ask a politician to lead us is to ask the tail of a dog to lead the dog.
There is room enough indoors in New York City for the whole 1963 world’s population to enter, with room enough inside for all hands to dance the twist in average nightclub proximity.
I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you’ve got to hook the fish.
I have great hope for tomorrow. My hope lies in three things-truth, youth, and love.
I say that radiation is inherently disintegrative: it comes apart. Gravity is inherently integrative: it pulls together. And to me, there’s a good possibility that love is what I’d call metaphysical gravity. It really holds everything together.
Degrees of accuracy are only degrees of refinement and magnitude in no way affects the fundamental reliability, which refers, as directional or angular sense, toward centralized truths. Truth is a relationship.
Always tell only the truth, and all the truth, and do so promptly – right now.
Everything can be linked together in some fashion, in either a physical, psychological, or symbolic manner.
Education by choice, with its marvelous motivating psychology of desire for truth, will make life ever cleaner and happier, more rhythmical and artistic.
I’m not trying to copy Nature, I’m trying to find the principles she’s using.
Whether we are able to be a complete success or failure is in such critical balance that every smallest human test of integrity every smallest moment-to-moment decision tips the scales affirmatively or negatively.
Selfishness is unnecessary. War is obsolete.
You take the senses away, and there is no consciousness. Consciousness comes from experience.
The further art advances the closer it approaches science, the further science advances the closer it approaches art.