Democracy, taken in its narrower, purely political, sense, suffers from the fact that those in economic and political power possess the means for molding public opinion to serve their own class interests. The democratic form of government in itself does not automatically solve problems; it offers, however, a useful framework for their solution. Everything depends ultimately on the political and moral qualities of the citizenry.

Concern for man himself must always constitute the chief objective of all technological effort

Those instrumental goods which should serve to maintain the life and health of all human beings should be produced by the least possible labour of all.

Man, surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surprise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more securely.

The years of anxious searching in the dark, with their intense longing, their alternations of confidence and exhaustion and the final emergence into the light -- only those who have experienced it can understand it.

I want to know all God's thoughts.

This is what the painter, the poet, the speculative philosopher, and the natural scientists do, each in his own fashion.