Knowledge Is Not A Loose Leaf Notebook

The Idea That The Universe Is Running Down Comes From A Simple Observation About Machines. Every Machine Consumes More Energy Than It Renders.

Who Has Not Hoped To Outrage An Enemy's Dignity? Who Has Not Been Swept By The Wish To Hurt? And Who Has Not Thought That The Impersonal World Deserves No Better Than To Be Destroyed By One Fabulous Sign Of His Displeasure?

Knowledge Is An Unending Adventure At The Edge Of Uncertainty.

The Problem Of Values Arises Only When Men Try To Fit Together Their Need To Be Social Animals With Their Need To Be Free Men. There Is No Problem, And There Are No Values, Until Men Want To Do Both. If An Anarchist Wants Only Freedom, Whatever The Cost, He Will Prefer The Jungle Of Man At War With Man. And If A Tyrant Wants Only Social Order, He Will Create The Totalitarian State.

Beyond All Our Actions Stands The Larger Shadow: How Are We To Choose Between What We Have Been Taught To Think Right And Something Else Which Manifestly Succeeds?