Parents lend children their experience and a vicarious memory children endow their parents with a vicarious immortality. – George Santayana
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent it is a salutation, not an embrace. – George Santayana
The effort of art is to keep what is interesting in existence, to recreate it in the eternal. – George Santayana
To the art of working well a civilized race would add the art of playing well. – George Santayana
Leon Theremins original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. Its like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. – Robert Moog