However, if we leave the industrial machinery and their energy-distribution networks and leave them also all the people who have routine jobs operating the industrial machinery and distributing its products, and we take away from all the industrial countries all their ideologies and all the politicians and political machine workers, people would keep right on eating. Possibly getting on a little better than before.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

All children are born geniuses, and we spend the first six years of their lives degeniusing them.

Real wealth is ideas plus energy.

The pyramids, attached with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

If man chooses oblivion, he can go right on leaving his fate to his political leaders. If he chooses Utopia, he must initiate an enormous education program - immediately, if not sooner.

I live on Earth at present, and I don’t know what I am. I know that I am not a category. I am not a thing — a noun. I seem to be a verb, an evolutionary process – an integral function of the universe.