Intellects whose desires have outstripped their understanding.

We have indeed at the moment little cause for pride: as a profession we have made a mess of things.

Even the striving for equality by means of a directed economy can result only in an officially enforced inequality - an authoritarian determination of the status of each individual in the new hierarchical order.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

I am a passionate reader, having been tutored very early by my mother. I avidly devoured all books on chemistry that I could find. Formal chemistry at school seemed boring by comparison, and my performance was routine. In contrast, I did spectacularly well in mathematics and sailed through classes and exams with ease.

The science linking the increased frequency and severity of extreme weather to the climate crisis has matured tremendously in the last couple of years.

The conscious purpose of science is control of Nature; its unconscious effect is disruption and chaos.