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

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

She said this in the same way you might say Fields of Punishment or Hades's gym shorts.

There is nothing fiercer than a failed artist. The energy remains, but, having no outlet, it implodes in a great fart of rage which smokes up all the inner windows of the soul.

Adverbs is a book about love, and I thought that was pretty cheerful, but people who are reading it now are telling me that it's actually quite dark.

How much more intense is the excitement wrought in the feelings of a crowd by the contemplation of human agony, than that brought about by the most appalling spectacles of inanimate matter.

What makes me furious, not just because we're in an interview, but I don't like when writers take your words and put them somewhere else, in the wrong context in their own article about you.

Nina Dobrev makes my job easy, its hard not to melt when she looks at you with those doe eyes.

[W]here other powers of entertainment are wanting, the true philosopher will derive benefit from such as are given.

The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.

Real music lovers are actually my favourite kind of people because they like to know, rather than just be told what to think.

I let people off the hook too easily.