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- America's present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.
- Warren G. Harding (1865 - 1923), Speech in Boston, 1920
- Anatomy is destiny.
- Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939), Collected Writings, 1924
- Either war is obsolete or men are.
- R. Buckminster Fuller (1895 - 1983), New Yorker, Jan. 8, 1966
- History is more or less bunk. It's tradition. We don't want tradition. We want to live in the present and the only history that is worth a tinker's dam is the history we made today.
- Henry Ford (1863 - 1947), Interview in Chicago Tribune, May 25th, 1916
- If A is success in life, then A equals x plus y plus z. Work is x; y is play; and z is keeping your mouth shut.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Observer, Jan. 15, 1950
- Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), "Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941
- The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking and we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), Telegram, 24 May 1946
- At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice.
- Albert Einstein (1879 - 1955), In a letter to Max Born, 1926
- Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
- Thomas A. Edison (1847 - 1931), Harper's Monthly, 1932
- Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859 - 1930), (Sherlock Holmes) Valley of Fear, 1915
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