"Liberty, in my opinion, is the only orthodoxy within the limits of which art may express itself and flourish freely-liberty that is the best of all things in the life of man, if it is all one with wisdom and virtue."

-- Arturo Toscanini

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“You know everybody has something to say. I'll be worried when they say nothing.”
“There are three aspects to perspective. The first has to do with how the size of objects seems to diminish according to distance: the second, the manner in which colors change the farther away they are from the eye; the third defines how objects ought to be finished less carefully the farther away they are.”
“There are books so alive that you're always afraid that while you weren't reading, the book has gone and changed, has shifted like a river; while you went on living, it went on living too, and like a river moved on and moved away. No one has stepped twice into the same river. But did anyone ever step twice into the same book?”
“I do not believe that God answers the prayer of any unredeemed Gentile or Jew”
“We are children of chaos, and the deep structure of change is decay. At root, there is only corruption, and the unstemmable tide of chaos. Gone is purpose; all that is left is direction. This is the bleakness we have to accept as we peer deeply and dispassionately into the heart of the Universe.”
“My faith experience, well, as you can imagine, you need a lot of faith to raise five boys.”
“In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough.”

Source : Foresight Institute Interview, www.foresight.org. June 15, 1987.
“An apology for the devil: it must be remembered that we have heard one side of the case. God has written all the books.”

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