Many people love in themselves what they hate in others

Our task - and the task of all education - is to understand the present world, the world in which we live and make our choices.

After all, for mankind as a whole there are no exports. We did not start developing by obtaining foreign exchange from Mars or the moon. Mankind is a closed society.

Perhaps we cannot raise the winds. But each of us can put up the sail, so that when the wind comes we can catch it.

Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

We think work with the brain is more worthy than work with the hands. Nobody who thinks with his hands could ever fall for this.