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

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.

The modern world tends to be skeptical about everything that makes demands on man's higher faculties. But it is not at all skeptical about skepticism, which demands hardly anything.

Our faith gives us knowledge of something better.

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need

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

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.