War Is A Specific Product Of Civilization.

To The Extent That The Scientist's Capacity For Pursuing The Truth Depends Upon Costly Apparatus, Institutional Collaboration And Heavy Capital Investment By Government Or Industry He Is No Longer His Own Master.

A Certain Amount Of Opposition Is A Great Help To A Man. Kites Rise Against, Not With, The Wind.

Forget The Damned Motor Car And Build The Cities For Lovers And Friends.

Adventure Is Humdrum And Routine Unless One Assimilates It, Unless One Relates It To A Central Core Which Grows Within And Gives It Contour And Significance. Raw Experience Is Empty, Just As Empty As The Forecastle Of A Whaler As In A Chamber Of A Counting House; For It Is Not What One Does, But In A Manifold Sense, What One Realizes That Keeps Existence From Being Vain And Trivial.

The Very People Who Shudder Over The Cruelty Of The Hunter Are Apt To Forget That Slaughter, In The Grimmest Sense Of The Word, Is A Process They Entrust Daily To The Butcher; And That Unlike The Game Of The Forests, Even The Dumbest Creatures Of The Slaughterhouse Know What Is In Store For Them.