You were probably educated in the conventional economic theories of your period which were magnificent and most ingenious, but--if you will pardon my saying so--all wrong.

Butterflies are self propelled flowers.

Damnit! Nationalism should stop at the stratosphere!

The most noble fate a man can endure is to place his own mortal body between his loved home and the war's desolation.

If it can't be expressed in figures, it is not science; it is opinion. It has long been known that one horse can run faster than another - but which one? Differences are crucial.

Sin lies only in hurting others unnecessarily. All other "sins" are invented nonsense.

It was equally imperative that this chain of reactions should always tend to dampen, to die out. It must not build up, or the uranium mass would explode within a time interval too short to be measured by any means whatsoever. Nor would there be anyone left to measure it.