[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.

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 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

Tell me, before you call us servants, who served whom? And who, I wonder, in your generations, will immortalize you?

The height the dupe has fallen is measured by his anger.

Live a life you don't need to take a vacation from

I wouldn’t say I was really into fashion before modelling; I was into creation.

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

This was the void. Not blackness, not nothingness. This was what lay beneath the thinly painted scrim of reality.

During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.

The majority of short term trading results are just random. In the long term the money ends up with those that can trade and manage risk.

I found all my reading and writing informed my music in subtle ways. Ravedeath came out of studying the pipe organ, going to New Jersey - the world's loudest and biggest pipe organ.

I hope I shall never see the day when the Force of Right is deprived of the Right of Force.