The concept of a value-free science is absurd.

If we saw tomorrow's newspaper today, tomorrow would never happen.

Know this: though love is weak and hate is strong, Yet hate is short, and love is very long.

Deciding under uncertainty is bad enough, but deciding under an illusion of certainty is catastrophic.

The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls "one-use goods," such as food and fuel, where the utilization and consumption of the good are tightly bound together in a single act or event. ... any economy in the consumption of fuel that enables us to maintain warmth or to generate power with lessened consumption again leaves us better off. ... there is no great value in consumption itself.

As far as many statistical series that are related to activities of mankind are concerned, the date that divides human history into two equal parts is well within living memory. The world of today is as different from the world I was born in as that world was from Julius Caesar s. I was born in the middle of human history, to date, roughly. Almost as much has happened since I was born as happened before.

The most fundamental form of integrative power is the power of love.