“A century from now it will no more occur to a normal person to mate with a person eugenically unfit than to marry a habitual criminal.”

Of all things, I liked books best.

Religion is simply an ideal. It is an ideal force that tends to free the human being from material bonds.

If your hate could be turned into electricity, it would light up the whole world.

You may live to see man-made horrors beyond your comprehension.

There is no energy in matter other than that received from the environment.

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

The gift of mental power comes from God, Divine Being, and if we concentrate our minds on that truth, we become in tune with this great power. My Mother had taught me to seek all truth in the Bible.

Nature may reach the same result in many ways.

I am trying to awake the energy contained in the air. These are the main sources of energy. What is considered as empty space is just a manifestation of matter that is not awakened.

The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.

The beauty and the scent of roses can be used as a medicine and the sun rays as a food.

The Buddhist expresses it in one way, the Christian in another, but both say the same: We are all one.

Though free to think and act, we are held together, like the stars in the firmament, with ties inseparable. These ties cannot be seen, but we can feel them.

The opinion of the world does not affect me. I have placed as the real values in my life what follows when I am dead.

Inventors don’t have time for married life.

Be alone, that is the secret of invention; be alone, that is when ideas are born.

The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.

It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

The end of commercial fishing is predicted long before the middle of the 21st century.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century.

In England we have come to rely upon a comfortable time-lag of fifty years or a century intervening between the perception that something ought to be done and a serious attempt to do it.

We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century – for several centuries.

Since the middle of the 20th century, more has been learnt about the ocean than during all preceding human history; at the same time, more has been lost.