The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.

Imagination without knowledge may create beautiful things, knowledge without imagination can create only perfect ones.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

Is it not better for a man to die for a cause in which he believes, such as peace, than to suffer for a cause in which he does not believe, such as war?

Today we must abandon competition and secure cooperation. This must be the central fact in all our considerations of international affairs; otherwise we face certain disaster. Past thinking and methods did not prevent world wars. Future thinking must prevent wars...The stakes are immense, the task colossal the time is short. But we may hope- we must hope- that man's own creation, man's own genius, will not destroy him.

Scientists investigate that which already is; Engineers create that which has never been.