he thoughtless knowers will call you a red or a communist or a capitalist or some name that expresses their aversion to any mental activity. But somebody must take a chance. The monkeys did who became men, and the monkeys who didn't are still jumping around in the trees making faces at us monkeys who did.

If my father could watch my son for a while, he might realize his own immortality.

Nothing is done. Everything in the world remains to be done or done over. The greatest picture is not yet painted, the greatest play isn't written, the greatest poem is unsung. There isn't in all the world a perfect railroad, nor a good government, nor a sound law. Physics, mathematics, and especially the most advanced and exact of the sciences are being fundamentally revised. . . Psychology, economics, and sociology are awaiting a Darwin, whose work in turn is awaiting an Einstein.

I am really puzzled to understand myself.

I have seen the future, and it works.

So youve been over into Russia? said Bernard Baruch, and I answered very literally, I have been over into the future and it works.

The doctrine of Jesus is the most revolutionary propaganda that I have ever encountered.