“The best way to renew thought is to go outside the human imagination.”

Can we ever really know anyone well? Lets just say we often found ourselves in each others company and neither of us minded.

We of the modern age are a bridge between the old human and the new one. We still have the mentality of the old human – a slave mentality, like the Children of Israel in Egypt: too controlled, full of fear.

Between what I think, what I want to say, what I believe I say, what I say, what you want to hear, what you believe to hear, what you hear, what you want to understand.

You know people. Most of them don’t hear anything. Those who hear – don’t listen. A few who listen – don’t understand. And those who could understand… they don’t care.

If we do turn (direct, aim, – “dirige”, Fr.) life in time the social life in new directions (or ways, – “dans des voies nouvelles”, Fr.)

False history gets made all day, any day, the truth of the new is never on the news.

The very words he uses are designed to awaken in them a new sense: the sense of the eternal.

All new learning looks at first like chaos.

These … tables (values of trignometric functions), constructed by means of new techniques based principally on the calculus of differences.

We need to imagine a world in which every woman is the presiding genius of her own body.

The normal routine is always the same thing whether it’s on a new movie or a new job

In private (Jerry Vines was with us), I asked Rogers what he did with the slavery passages of the New Testament.