Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

Is it any wonder that to this day this Galilean is too much for our small hearts?

You Americans have the loveliest wine in the world, you know, but you don't realize it. You call them domestic and that's enough to start trouble anywhere.

The Anglo-Saxon genius for parliamentary government asserted itself; there was a great deal of talk and no decisive action.

The passion for playing chess is one of the most unaccountable in the world. It slaps the theory of natural selection in the face. It is the most absorbing of occupations. The least satisfying of desires. A nameless excrescence upon life. It annihilates a man. You have, let us say, a promising politician, a rising artist that you wish to destroy. Dagger or bomb are archaic and unreliable - but teach him, inoculate him with chess.

Our business here is to be Utopian, to make vivid and credible, if we can, first this facet and then that, of an imaginary whole and happy world.

Statistical thinking will one day be as necessary for efficient citizenship as the ability to read and write!