The creative element in the mind of man . . . emerges in as mysterious a fashion as those elementary particles which leap into momentary existence in great cyclotrons, only to vanish again like infinitesimal ghosts.
Source: The Night Country, 1971.
-- Loren Eiseley, (Sep 3 1907-1977), US anthropologist, educator, author; He wrote about anthropology for the lay person in eloquent, poetic style; wrote The Star Thrower, 1949 and The Unexpected Universe, 1969.