There is a quiet, open place in the depths of the mind, to which we can go many times in the day and lift up our soul in praise, thankfulness and conscious unity. With practise this God-ward turn of the mind becomes an almost constant direction, underlying all our other activities.

[The loss-of-strength gradient is] the degree to which military and political power diminishes as we move a unit distance away from its home base.

What exists, is possible.

It is absurd to suppose we can think of nature as a system apart from knowledge, for it is knowledge that is increasingly determining the course of nature.

Integrative power [is] the ultimate power

[There will be movement toward] behavioral economics... [which] involves study of those aspects of men's images, or cognitive and affective structures that are more relevant to economic decisions.

The trouble with taxonomic boxes is... that that they tend to be empty, however beautiful they are on the outside.