Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Our species is the only creative species, and it has only one creative instrument, the individual mind and spirit of a man. Nothing was ever created by two men. There are no good collaborations, whether in art, in music, in poetry, in mathematics, in philosophy. Once the miracle of creation has taken place, the group can build and extend it, but the group never invents anything. The preciousness lies in the lonely mind of a man." in the context of "John Steinbeck in "East of Eden" quoted in: Kyoko Ariki, Luchen Li, Scott Pugh John Steinbeck's Global Dimensions, Scarecrow Press, 2008, p. 26" to mean that wisdom is timeless.