We still have to learn how to live peacefully, not only with our fellow men but also with nature.

I cannot predict the wind but I can have my sail ready.

The most striking thing about modern industry is that it requires so much and accomplishes so little.

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.

Real life consists of the tensions produced by the incompatibility of opposites, each of which is needed

Even bigger machines, entailing even bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the nonviolent, the elegant and beautiful.

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.