The artist does not illustrate science. He frequently, however, responds to the same interests that a scientist does."

Traditionalists are pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.

"The city is a fact in nature, like a cave, a run of mackerel or an ant-heap. But it is also a conscious work of art, and it holds within its communal framework many simpler and more personal forms of art."

"The clock not the steam engine, is the key machine of the modern industrial age."

Only entropy comes easy.