Theories without facts may be barren, but facts without theories are meaningless.

Anyone who believes exponential growth can go on forever in a finite world is either a madman or an economist.

A world of unseen dictatorship is conceivable, still using the forms of democratic government.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

Equilibrium is a figment of the human imagination.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

DNA has been aptly described as the first three-dimensional Xerox machine.

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

There is no such thing as economics, only social science applied to economic problems.

The future is bound to surprise us, but we don't have to be dumbfounded.

Life is immeasurable breath.

If love is the treasure, laughter is the key.

The spiritual sense of our place in nature... can be traced to the origins of human civilization... The last vestige of organized goddess worship was eliminated by Christianity.

[We should beware] that our democracy stays healthy. And making sure that we maintain that sense of solidarity.

The litmus test of our love for God is our love of neighbor.

Who combats with a brother, wounds himself.

A lot of times, you beat a person who beat a person who can beat you. I mean, it doesn't make any sense.

Art has a prophetic role, denouncing the culture it lays bare.

The word of God is my vow.

Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know.