Modern man talks of a battle with nature, forgetting that, if he won the battle, he would find himself on the losing side

Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology toward the organic, the gentle, the elegant and beautiful.

The richer a society, the more impossible it becomes to do worthwhile things without immediate pay-off.

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.

The fundamental task is to achieve smallness within large organisation.

To describe an animal as a physico-chemical system of extreme complexityis no doubt perfectly correct, except that it misses out on the animalness of the animal.

The best aid to give is intellectual aid, a gift of useful knowledge. A gift of knowledge is infinitely preferable to a gift of material things.