I do not look upon human beings as good or bad. I don't think of my feet as a right foot and a wrong foot. ... I am a student of the effectiveness of the technological evolution in its all unexpected alterations of the preoccupations of humanity and in its all unexpected alterings of human behaviors and prospects.

I set about fifty-five years ago (1927) to see what a penniless, unknown human individual with a dependent wife and newborn child might be able to do effective…

I do know that technologically humanity now has the opportunity, for the first time in its history, to operate our planet in such a manner as to support and ac…

I was convinced in 1927 that humanity's most fundamental survival problems could never be solved by politics.

Er ist eine Skala der Proportionen, die das Schlechte schwierig und das Gute leicht macht.

On a very rough-and-ready basis we might define an eccentric as a man who is a law unto himself, and a crank as one who, having determined what the law is, ins…

He had never disagreed with anyone in his life, no matter how unfairly they may have treated him. He preferred to swallow his tears, suppress his anger and bit…