What other people think of me is not really my major concern in life. What other people think of what I write is another matter.
A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.
We already know enough to begin to cope with all the major problems that are now threatening human life and much of the rest of life on earth. Our crisis is not a crisis of information; it is a crisis of decision of policy and action.
[Attributing the origin of life to spontaneous generation. ] However improbable we regard this event, it will almost certainly happen at least once. . . . The time. . . is of the order of two billion years. . . . Given so much time, the "impossible" becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles.
The great questions are those an intelligent child asks and, getting no answers, stops asking.
Since we have had a history, men have pursued an ideal of immortality.
So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
Your dreamer may do without a creed, but he always wants a ritual.
It is my settled opinion, after some years as a political correspondent, that no one is attracted to a political career in the first place unless he is socially or emotionally crippled.
Gorgeous day here in Chicago. Sure is better than Canada.
There is no such thing as a special category of science called applied science; there is science and its applications, which are related to one another as the fruit is related to the tree that has borne it.