Search results for “line drawings”
Emily Dickinson’s Herbarium: A Forgotten Treasure at the Intersection of Science and Poetry
An elegy for time and the mortality of beauty, composed with passionate patience and a sensuous cadence.
The Founding Father of Neuroscience on Solitude, the Importance of Science in a Nation’s Greatness, and the Ideal Social Environment for Intellectual Achievement
“Oh comforting solitude, how favorable thou art to original thought!”
William Faulkner on What Sherwood Anderson Taught Him About Writing, the Artist’s Task, and Being an American
“To be a writer, one has first got to be what he is.”
Legendary Anthropologist Margaret Mead on Work, Leisure, and Creativity
“If we make one criterion for defining the artist… the impulse to make something new… — a kind of divine discontent with all that has gone before, however good — then we can find such artists at every level of human culture, even when performing acts of great simplicity.”
James Gleick on How Our Cultural Fascination with Time Travel Illuminates Memory, the Nature of Time, and the Central Mystery of Human Consciousness
“Every moment alters what came before. We reach across layers of time for the memories of our memories.”
Don Giovanni and the Universe: Aldous Huxley on How the Moon Illuminates the Complementarity of Spirituality and Science
“The universe throws down a challenge to the human spirit… We have a right to our moods of sober exultation.”
Diseases of the Will: Neuroscience Founding Father Santiago Ramón y Cajal on the Six Psychological Flaws That Keep the Talented from Achieving Greatness
“Our neurons must be used … not only to know but also to transform knowledge; not only to experience but also to construct.”
In Search of a Better World: Karl Popper on Truth vs. Certainty and the Dangers of Relativism
“Knowledge consists in the search for truth… It is not the search for certainty.”
The Best Children’s Books of 2016
From love to mortality to the lives of Einstein and Louise Bourgeois, by way of silence and the color of the wind.
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