If you want to use a cliche you must take full responsibility for it yourself and not try to fob it off on anon., or on society.

Ants are so much like human beings as to be an embarrasment...They do everything but watch television.

If we are to be destroyed we will do it ourselves by warfare with thermonuclear weaponry.

We have dominated and overruled nature, and from now on the earth is ours, a kitchen garden until we learn to make our own chlorophyll and float it out in the sun inside plastic mebranes. We will build Scarsdale on Mount Everest.

The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each one attached to the next by a logical string. In truth, whenever we discover a new fact it involves the elimination of old ones. We are always, as it turns out, fundamentally in error.

I will confess that I have no more sense of what goes on in the mind of mankind than I have for the mind of an ant.

If an idea cannot move on its own, pushing it doesn't help; best to let it lie there.