I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.

The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of teaching him also the uses of wealth.

An honest money system is the only alternative.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of wind.

The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

...if you do the job no one wants, you might eventually get the job everybody wants. But you have to be willing to climb the ladder, starting with the bottom rung.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example.

Think, think, think. It will hurt like hell at first, but you'll get used to it.

It is precisely when we have suffered defeat that we can determine to win and open the path to future victory.

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.

You will always be here with me; As long as I live, A towering figure of love.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education.

Our ideals of freedom, set forth and realized in our Constitution, are our greatest export to the world.

We are born by accident into a purely random universe.