The power to destroy a thing is the absolute control over it.

In politics, the tripod is he most unstable of all structures. It's be bad enough without the complication of a feudal trade culture which turns its back on most science.

The clear and safe path leads evermore into stagnation

The thing the ecologically illiterate don't realize about an ecosystem is that it's a system. A system! A system maintains a certain fluid stability that can be destroyed by a misstep in just one niche.

Control the coinage and the courts — let the rabble have the rest.

I don't worry about inspiration, or anything like that. It's a matter of just sitting down and working.

The beginning of knowledge is the discovery of something we do not understand.