Poetry, Mythology, And Religion Represent The World

In The Long Run Our Boasted Control Of Nature Is A Delusion.

Life Is Very Persistent And Very Ingenious In Seizing Every Opportunity.

If Only The Fit Survive And If The Fitter They Are The Longer They Survive, Then Volvox Must Have Demonstrated Its Superb Fitness More Conclusively Than Any Higher Animal Ever Has.

Few People Have Ever Seriously Wished To Be Exclusively Rational. The Good Life Which Most Desire Is A Life Warmed By Passions And Touched With That Ceremonial Grace Which Is Impossible Without Some Affectionate Loyalty To Traditional Form And Ceremonies.

February... Now More Than Ever One Must Remind Oneself That It Is Wasteful Folly To Wish That Time Would Pass, Or - As The Puritanical Old Saying Used To Have It - To Kill Time Until It Kills You.