Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

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.

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

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 game itself is bigger than the winning.

In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears' awesome strength.

Prince Charles is an absolute Mountbatten. The real intelligence in the royal family comes through my parents to Prince Philip and the children.

If it tastes really good, and it's funky, it's funkalicous. If the guy making it is funky, he's funkintacious.

Peter," she whispered and reached out, touching his cheek. "My little Peterbird? You flew back to me.

What I do for exercise sort of depends on what's happening in the rest of my life.

I usually wait until I get on the bus, when I'm done with media and I get to sit down and listen to my music and just read through everyone's messages.

The danger of loss of faith in God is not that one will believe in nothing, but rather that one will believe in anything.

In general, every stimulus directs activity. It does not simply excite it or stir it up, but directs it toward an object.

Embarrassingly for Obama, it appeared that his administration had jumped the gun on banning the bullets.