With all our mastery over the powers of Nature we have adhered to the view that the struggle for existence is a permanent and necessary condition of ….

On our plane knowledge and ignorance are the immemorial adversaries..

Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess ….

Innumerable entirely new compounds have been produced in the last century. The artificial dye-stuffs, prepared from materials occurring in coal-tar, ….

The dropping of the Atomic Bomb is a very deep problem... Instead of commemorating Hiroshima we should celebrate... man's triumph over the problem [o….

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

The real value of science is in the getting, and those who have tasted the pleasure of discovery alone know what science is. A problem solved is dead….

It is curious to reflect, for example, upon the remarkable legend of the Philosopher's Stone, one of the oldest and most universal beliefs, the origi….

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

The fact remains that, if the supply of energy failed, modern civilization would come to an end as abruptly as does the music of an organ deprived of….

It is probable that all heavy matter possesses - latent and bound up with the structure of the atom - a similar quantity of energy to that possessed ….

The energy available for each individual man is his income, and the philosophy which can teach him to be content with penury should be capable of tea….

An inexplicable fact is infinitely preferable to an incomprehensible mystery..

The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order to derive a permanent future income from it - to convert wealth that perishes i….

Heat energy of uniform temperature [is] the ultimate fate of all energy. The power of sunlight and coal, electric power, water power, winds and tides….

In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be accounted as pure gain. But in so far as t….

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..