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 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.

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.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

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.

Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.

An attitude of gratitude is one of the greatest attitudes of life.

The only way you can talk about this great tide in which you’re a participant is as Schopenhauer did: the universe is a dream dreamed by a single dreamer where all the dream characters dream too.

I knew that just because people on the outside were free and clean, it didn’t mean they were the good ones.

If you were the wall, what would you rather be? Dreary and dull, or alive with paint?" "Walls can't think!" "That doesn't stop them from caring.

New York City has 2 million rats. We used to have 8 million rats. Now we're down to 2 million. You know what that means? We lose four electoral votes.

Even as a kid- do all kids think about this? I hope they don’t, I hope my kids don’t think about this- I was always thinking about, "Well, what are we doing? What is this all about?"

You can achieve a shallow local maximum with A/B testing - but you'll never win hearts and minds.

I love art and fashion.

There is a difference between being a bad child and being a wild child. Anybody can be wild, but to be bad you need some kind of knowledge.