The floating vapour is just as true an illustration of the law of gravity as the falling avalanche.

Science has done more for the development of western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred years.

You cannot cause disproportionate damage to the environment; you cannot harm neutral states. The court said that the threat or use of nuclear weapons is generally contrary to the international law of armed conflict.

[T]he cold warms me—after a different fashion from that of the kitchen stove.

Somewhat by historical happenstance the five permanent members of the UN Security Council - United States, Britain, France, Russia, and China - also were the original five countries to have nuclear weapons.

That which distinguishes this day from all others is that then both orators and artillerymen shoot blank cartridges.

I was born with a chronic anxiety about the weather.