It is not too much to expect that our children will enjoy in their homes electrical energy too cheap to meter.
—Lewis Strauss, 1954
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The fundamental concept in social science is power, in the same sense in which energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
—Bertrand Russell, 1938The most advanced nations are always those who navigate the most.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1870Happiness does not dwell in herds, nor yet in gold.
—Democritus, c. 420 BCDrive out nature with a pitchfork, and she will always come back.
—Horace, c. 25 BCI curse the night, yet doth from day me hide.
—William Drummond, 1616All pain is one malady with many names.
—Antiphanes, c. 400 BCLo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
—Ecclesiastes, c. 250 BCThe men of today are born to criticize; of Achilles they see only the heel.
—Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, 1880When you have only two pennies left in the world, buy a loaf of bread with one, and a lily with the other.
—Chinese proverbEvery saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.
—Oscar Wilde, 1893Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.
—Henry George, 1879He that commands the sea is at great liberty and may take as much and as little of the war as he will.
—Francis Bacon, c. 1600