The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.

One has only to contemplate the magnitude of this task to concede that the spontaneous generation of a living organism is impossible. Yet here we are-as a result, I believe, of spontaneous generation.

About two million years ago, man appeared. He has become the dominant species on the earth. All other living things, animal and plant, live by his sufferance. He is the custodian of life on earth, and in the solar system. It's a big responsibility.

I have lived much of my life among molecules. They are good company.

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

It's not good enough to give it tender, loving care, to supply it with breakfast foods, to buy it expensive educations. Those things don't mean anything unless this generation has a future. And we're not sure that it does.

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.