Procrustes in modern dress, the nuclear scientist will prepare the bed on which mankind must lie; and if mankind doesn’t fit—well, that will be just too bad for mankind. There will have to be some stretching and a bit of amputation—the same sort of stretching and amputations as have been going on ever since applied science really got going into its stride, only this time they will be a good deal more drastic than in the past. These far from painless operations will be directed by highly centralized totalitarian governments.

All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

Science in itself is morally neutral; it becomes good or evil according as it is applied.

Generalities are intellectually necessary evils.

The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.

But then people don't read literature in order to understand; they read it because they want to re-live the feelings and sensations which they found exciting in the past. Art can be a lot of things; but in actual practice, most of it is merely the mental equivalent of alcohol and cantharides.