“natural language will always remain the basic interpretation of, and reservoir for, the development of the artificial formalized languages of science.”

“The transference of culture in time can, in large measure, be described as the conservation of sign systems serving as a control on behavior.”

“They blended religion and art and science because, at base, science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”

“Science is no more than an investigation of a miracle we can never explain, and art is an interpretation of that miracle.”

“Novels give you the matrix of emotions, give you the flavour of a time in a way formal history cannot.”

“This is because Marxism looks at things as a whole and in relation to each other—or tries to, but its limitations are not the point for the moment. A person who has been influenced by Marxism takes it for granted that an event in Siberia will affect one in Botswana. I think it is possible that Marxism was the first attempt, for our time [written in 1971], outside the formal religions, at a world-mind, a world ethic. It went wrong, could not prevent itself from dividing and subdividing, like all the other religions, into smaller and smaller chapels, sects and creeds. But it was an attempt.”

“I don't know why I still find it so hard to accept that words are faulty and by their very nature innacurate”