Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all – the apathy of human beings.

The decisive moment in human evolution is perpetual. That is why the revolutionary spiritual movements that declare all former things worthless are in the right, for nothing has yet happened.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

About morals, I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

Some people regard private enterprise as a predatory tiger to be shot. Others look on it as a cow they can milk. Not enough people see it as a healthy horse, pulling a sturdy wagon.

The masculine spirit is under assault. It’s obvious.

Fear is the mother of morality.

Editing is now the easiest thing on earth to do, and all the things that evolved out of word processing – ‚Oh, let’s put that sentence there, let’s get rid of this‘ – have become commonplace in films and music too.

You don’t have the same mentality as you did five years ago – even one year. People are always changing, and I believe that everyone deserves the space to change and for people to recognize their change.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

The value of a dollar is social, as it is created by society.

Synergy is what happens when one plus one equals ten or a hundred or even a thousand! It’s the profound result when two or more respectful human beings determine to go beyond their preconceived ideas to meet a great challenge.

We walk together, we move together, we think together, we resolve together, and together we take this country forward.

Surely the wake left behind by mankind’s forward march reveals its movement just as clearly as the spray thrown up elsewhere by the prow.

To me there has never been a higher source of earthly honor or distinction than that connected with advances in science.

There are some loony people in this world!

Science is nothing but perception.

I do not believe in immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern with no superhuman authority behind it.

If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.

Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth.

Modesty forbids what the law does not.

I think big business is a terrible thing for the spirit of the country, as our spirit is the best thing about us.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.

Study hard so that you can master technology, which allows us to master nature.

I never wanted to be a scientist per se. I wanted to be a naturalist.

The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

The most compelling reason for most people to buy a computer for the home will be to link it to a nationwide communications network. We’re just in the beginning stages of what will be a truly remarkable breakthrough for most people – as remarkable as the telephone.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

Cultures, for better or worse, are very stable.

There are few things more dishonorable than misleading the young.

My brother and I were both good at science, and we were both good at English literature. Either one of us could have gone either way.

We might come closer to balancing the Budget if all of us lived closer to the Commandments and the Golden Rule.

Without a moral framework, there is nothing left but immediate self-indulgence by some and the path of least resistance by others. Neither can sustain a free society.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

I’m not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me.

For the introduction of a new kind of music must be shunned as imperiling the whole state; since styles of music are never disturbed without affecting the most important political institutions.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

The most practical kind of politics is the politics of decency.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

I just know what is right and I want to do what is right.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Competition has been shown to be useful up to a certain point and no further, but cooperation, which is the thing we must strive for today, begins where competition leaves off.

Social struggles have been taking place throughout millennia, since human beings, by resorting to wars, were able to take hold of a surplus production to satisfy the essential needs of life.

Almost everything that distinguishes the modern world from earlier centuries is attributable to science, which achieved its most spectacular triumphs in the seventeenth century.

You can’t say civilization don’t advance… in every war they kill you in a new way.

In the literal sense, there has been no relevant evolution since the trek from Africa. But there has been substantial progress towards higher standards of rights, justice and freedom – along with all too many illustrations of how remote is the goal of a decent society.

The arts have only ever interested a small minority of people, which acted as a kind of nursery to support artists.

I’m a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they’re interested in.

The human voice can never reach the distance that is covered by the still small voice of conscience.

The Web and new technology offer more opportunities to reach a world market at a lower price. Today, a person can start a business at home and reach the world market.

The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of tiny pushes of each honest worker.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Progressively saved by the machine from the anxieties that bound his hands and mind to material toil, relieved of a large part of his work and compelled to an ever-increasing speed of action by the devices which his intelligence cannot help ceaselessly creating and perfecting, man is about to find himself abruptly plunged into idleness.

Technology is unlocking the innate compassion we have for our fellow human beings.

Politics have no relation to morals.

I think we are at the dawn of a new era in commercial space exploration.

He who possesses art and science has religion; he who does not possess them, needs religion.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.