Things do change. The only question is that since things are deteriorating so quickly, will society and man's habits change quickly enough?

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

Humanity is cutting down its forests, apparently oblivious to the fact that we may not be able to live without them.

I have written 240 books on a wide variety of topics. . . . Some of it I based on education I received in my school, but most of it was backed by other ways of learning - chiefly in the books I obtained in the public library.

Life originated in the sea, and about eighty percent of it is still there.

In a properly automated and educated world, then, machines may prove to be the true humanizing influence. It may be that machines will do the work that makes life possible and that human beings will do all the other things that make life pleasant and worthwhile

A fire-eater must eat fire even if he has to kindle it himself.