So long as there are men, there will be wars.

People start their lives at last when they are able to live for something other than themselves.

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

We experience ourselves our thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us.

The history of scientific and technical discovery teaches us that the human race is poor in independent and creative imagination. Even when the external and scientific requirements for the birth of an idea have long been there, it generally needs an external stimulus to make it actually happen; man has, so to speak, to stumble right up against the thing before the idea comes.

Sometimes one pays most for the things one gets for nothing.

Hell! there ain't no rules around here! We are tryin' to accomplish somep'n!