Is not prayer also a study of truth,--a sally of the soul into the unfound infinite? No man ever prayed heartily, without learning... something. But when a faithful thinker, resolute to detach every object from personal relations, and see it in the light of thought, shall, at the same time, kindle science with the fire of the holiest affections, then will God go forth anew into creation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Science is a capital or fund perpetually reinvested; it accumulates, rolls up, is carried forward by every new man. Every man of s...cience has all the science before him to go upon, to set himself up in business with. What an enormous sum Darwin availed himself of and reinvested! Not so in literature; to every poet, to every artist, it is still the first day of creation, so far as the essentials of his task are concerned. Literature is not so much a fund to be reinvested as it is a crop to be ever new-grown.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the mat...erial creation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, ...creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
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 creat...ion, 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.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Sense (for a particular art, science, human being, and so forth) is divided spirit; self-restraint is consequently the result of s...elf-creation and self-destruction.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It is change, continuing change, inevitable change, that is the dominant factor in society today. No sensible decision can be made... any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as it will be.... This, in turn, means that our statesmen, our businessmen, our everyman must take on a science fictional way of thinking.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today--but the core of s...cience fiction, its essence ... has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Everything is becoming science fiction. From the margins of an almost invisible literature has sprung the intact reality of the 20...th century.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »