It is only men who are free, who create the inventions and intellectual works which to us moderns make life worth while.
Necessity is the mother of all invention.
You cannot simultaneously prevent and prepare for war. The very prevention of war requires more faith, courage and resolution than are needed to prepare for war. We must all do our share, that we may be equal to the task of peace.
Compound interest on debt was the banker's greatest invention, to capture, and enslave, a productive society.
But their intervention makes our acts to serve ever less merely the immediate claims of our instincts.
Conscious man, to be sure, has at all times been keenly aware that life is an adventure, that life must, forever, be wrested from death.
A bartender is just a pharmacist with a limited inventory.
Even trivial events demonstrate strong devotion to the Universe and small concern for ego.
Conventional words or other signs have to be sought for laboriously only in a second stage, where the associative play already referred to is sufficiently established and can be reproduced at will.
Time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it.
Even a fool is wise after an event.
We scientists, whose tragic destiny it has been to make the methods of annihilation ever more gruesome and more effective, must consider it our solemn and transcendent duty to do all in our power in preventing these weapons from being used for the br