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Loren Eiseley
One [practitioner of...
One [practitioner of science] is the educated man who still has a controlled sense of wonder before the universal...
When the human...
When the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we may say with absolute certainty that Man...
The creative element...
The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which...
God knows how...
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own...
It is frequently...
It is frequently the tragedy of the great artist, as it is of the great scientist, that he frightens the ordinary...
Like the herd...
Like the herd animals we are, we sniff warily at the strange one among us.
Source:...
From the solitude...
From the solitude of the wood, [Man] has passed to the more dreadful solitude of the...
Each one of...
Each one of us is a statistical impossibility around which hove a million other lives that were never destined to be...
It was the...
It was the failures who had always won, but by the time they won they had come to be called successes. This is the...
If it should...
If it should turn out that we have mishandled our own lives as several civilizations before us have done, it seems a...