It is science alone that can solve the problems of hunger and poverty, of insanitation and illiteracy, of superstition and deadening custom and tradition, of vast resources running to waste, or a rich country inhabited by starving people... Who indeed could afford to ignore science today? At every turn we have to seek its aid... The future belongs to science and those who make friends with science.

Time is not measured by the passing of years but by what one does, what one feels, and what one achieves.

Crises and deadlocks when they occur have at least this advantage, that they force us to think.

There is nothing more horrifying than stupidity in action.

The forces in a capitalist society, if left unchecked, tend to make the rich richer and the poor poorer.

Play the hand you're dealt.

A great disaster is a symbol to us to remember all the big things of life and forget the small things, of which we have thought too much.