Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings.

By the year 2070 we cannot say, or it would be imbecile to do so, that any man alive could understand Shakespearean experience better than Shakespeare, whereas any decent eighteen-year-old student of physics will know more physics than Newton.

Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

There is, of course, no complete solution. But we can do something. The chief means open to us is education There is no excuse for letting another generation be as vastly ignorant, or as devoid of understanding and sympathy, as we are ourselves.

Well, we have seen a wonder. We ought to count our blessings.