Rhetoric Takes No Real Account Of The

If We Do Not Permit The Earth To Produce Beauty And Joy, It Will In The End Not Produce Food, Either.

Custom Has Furnished The Only Basis Which Ethics Have Ever Had.

Electronic Calculators Can Solve Problems Which The Man Who Made Them Cannot Solve; But No Government-subsidized Commission Of Engineers And Physicists Could Create A Worm.

Nature Takes No Account Of Even The Most Reasonable Of Human Excuses.

Civilizations Die From Philosophical Calm, Irony, And A Sense Of Fair Play Quite As Surely As They Die Of Debauchery.