Everybody else specializes. Daddy knows everything, and he puts the pieces together.

I had never been much interested in Pluto, too many facts and too much isolation.

More depended on the student than on the school.

Anybody can look at a pretty girl and see a pretty girl. An artist can look at a pretty girl and see the old woman she will become. A better artist can look at an old woman and see the pretty girl that she used to be. But a great artist--a master--and that is what Auguste Rodin was--can look at an old woman, portray her exactly as she is . . . and force the viewer to see the pretty girl she used to be . . . and more than that, he can make anyone with the sensitivity of an armadillo, or even you, see that this lovely young girl is still alive, not old and ugly at all, but simply prisoned inside her ruined body.

The arts are the best Time Machine we have." C. S. Lewis

The professor counsels against retrospective history, assuming that particular pieces contributed to an outcome.