The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power, winds and tides do the work of the world, and in the end all unite to hasten the merry molecular dance.

[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.

Mankind has always drawn from outside sources of energy. This island was the first to harness coal and steam. But our present sources stand in the ratio of a million to one, compared with any previous sources. The release of atomic energy will change the whole structure of society.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.