It is therefore scientifically correct to say that ‘natural selection has been proved to be an agent of evolutionary change’ – we can, in fact, prove it by doing. But it is totally illegitimate to...

An ounce of practice is generally worth more than a ton of theory.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

What do I miss, as a human being, if I have never heard of the Second Law of Thermodynamics? The answer is: Nothing. And what do I miss by not knowing Shakespeare? Unless I get...

The real problems of our planet are not economic or technical, they are philosophical. The philosophy of unbridled materialism is being challenged by events.

People say: ‘Let the facts speak for themselves’; they forget that the speech of facts is real only if it is heard and understood.

An attitude to life which seeks fulfilment in thesingle-minded pursuit of wealth – in short, materialism – does not fit into thisworld, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while theenvironment in which it...

To say that life is nothing but a property of certain peculiar combinations of atoms is like saying that Shakespeare’s Hamlet is nothing but a property of a peculiar combination of letters.

Everything can be seen directly except the eye through which we see.

Economic development is something much wider and deeper than economics, let alone econometrics. Its roots lie outside the economic sphere, in education, organisation, discipline and, beyond that, in political independence and a national consciousness of...