I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

Our true nationality is mankind.

Biologists can be just as sensitive to heresy as theologians.

It is a law of nature we overlook, that intellectual versatility is the compensation for change, danger, and trouble.

No. I cannot expect you to believe it. Take it as a lie--or a prophecy. Say I dreamed it in the workshop. Consider I have been speculating upon the destinies of our race until I have hatched this fiction. Treat my assertion of its truth as a mere stroke of art to enhance its interest. And taking it as a story, what do you think of it?

This World Youth movement claims to represent and affect the politico-social activities of a grand total of forty million adherents - under the age of thirty...It may play an important and increasing role in the consolidation of a new world order.