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

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.

Lord I thank you for the grace to live through every day.

Attempts to control complex systems … tend to be pointless at best or destructive at worst.

I'm not a strikingly handsome guy, but I'm in movies.

Is education possibly a process of trading awareness for things of lesser worth? The goose who trades his is soon a pile of feathers.

To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.

I think it's very important for us to start to build a culture of resistance, because what we're doing isn't working, clearly.

Time doesn't necessarily happen in chronological order.

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

But if I'm content with a little, Enough is as good as a feast.