Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought was true was not true. By the elimination of a false premise, his basic capital wealth which in his given lifetime is disembarrassed of further preoccupation with considerations of how to employ a worthless time-consuming hypothesis. Freeing his time for its more effective exploratory investment is to give man increased wealth.

There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.

All children are born geniuses; 9,999 out of every 10,000 are swiftly, inadvertently degeniusized by grownups.

Pollution is nothing but resources we're not harvesting.

... reform the environment and not man; being absolutely confident that if you give man the right environment, he will behave favorably.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe.

Technologically we now have four [seven!] billion billionaires on board Spaceship Earth who are entirely unaware of their good fortune.