"The landscape holds its breath, waiting for something to happen, but nothing ever does."

"Science is the highest personification of the nation because that nation will remain the first which carries the furthest the works of thought and intelligence."

The architect's task is to make the world a more beautiful place.

The hard problem of consciousness is the problem of explaining how and why physical processes in the brain give rise to subjective experience.

There is no doubt that in exchanging a self-centered for a selfless life we gain enormously in self-esteem. The vanity of the selfless, even those who practice utmost humility, is boundless.