“It is not ignorance but knowledge which is the mother of wonder.”

“The most serious charge which can be brought against New England is not Puritanism but February.”

“Cats seem to go on the principle that it never does any harm to ask for what you want.”

“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without. ”

“Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.”

“As machines get to be more and more like men, men will come to be more like machines. ”

“When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal, when he wantonly destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.”