Canada has no cultural unity, no linguistic unity, no religious unity, no economic unity, no geographic unity. All it has is unity.

Economists and technologists bring the "bits", but it requires the social scientists and humanists to bring the "wits.

Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man?

The world moves into the future as a result of decisions, not as a result of plans. Plans are significant only insofar as they affect decisions.

Economics has been incurably growth-oriented and addicted to everybody growing richer, even at the cost of exhaustion of resources and pollution of the environment.

It is almost as hard to define mathematics as it is to define economics, and one is tempted to fall back on the famous old definition attributed to Jacob Viner, "Economics is what economists do," and say that mathematics is what mathematicians do. A large part of mathematics deals with the formal relations of quantities or numbers.

Integrative power [is] the ultimate power