Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

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

If everybody agrees with your point of view, you haven't thought hard enough.

Wrestling is pretty DIY. I've been doing it for 12 years, completely on my own. It's like being in a band or running a zine - except that I get to kick people in the face.

Boldness is ever blind, for it sees not dangers and inconveniences whence it is bad in council though good in execution.

Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.

Children are a plant substitute and we haven't the wit to see it until too late

Like warmed-up cabbage served at each repast, The repetition kills the wretch at last.

But some people have to get lucky just to live. And I never knew I could make anybody lucky.

Actually everybody has a story, a fairy tale in their heart that they adhere to.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions.