Unchallenged, opinions became respected precedent then exceptionless concepts and sometimes even civil and academically accepted social law.

The word generalization in literature usually means covering too much territory too thinly to be persuasive, let alone convincing. In science, however, a generalization means a principle that has been found to hold true in every special case.... The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization.

Wealth is the product of energy times intelligence: energy turned into artifacts that advantage human life.

In order for a world-around democracy to prosper, world society must learn how to prosper.

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it.

Here is an educational bombshell: Take from all of today's industrial nations all their industrial machinery and all their energy-distributing networks, and leave them all their ideologies, all their political leaders, and all their political organizations, and I can tell you that within six months, two billion people will die of starvation, having gone through great pain and deprivation along the way.

You can never learn less; you can only learn more. The reason I know so much is because I have made so many mistakes.