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The history of man is dominated by, and reflects, the amount of available energy

[The human control of atomic energy could] virtually provide anyone who wanted it with a private sun of his own.

But what sin is to the moralist and crime to the jurist so to the scientific man is ignorance.

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries.

Man cannot influence in this respect the atomic forces of Nature.

The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.

There has been no discovery like it in the history of man. It puts into man's hands the key to using the fundamental energy of the universe.

There is something sublime about its aloofness from and its indifference to its external environment.

I believe that there have been civilisations in the past that were familiar with atomic energy, and that by misusing it they were totally destroyed.

An honest money system is the only alternative.

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery.

Nature is in austere mood, even terrifying, withal majestically beautiful.