Technology Made Large Populations Possible;

February... Now More Than Ever One Must Remind Oneself That It Is Wasteful Folly To Wish That Time Would Pass, Or - As The Puritanical Old Saying Used To Have It - To Kill Time Until It Kills You.

To Those Who Study Her, Nature Reveals Herself As Extraordinarily Fertile And Ingenious In Devising Means, But She Has No Ends Which The Human Mind Has Been Able To Discover Or Comprehend.

If We Are Deprived Of Hope As Well As Fear, We Are Compensated By Being Given An Almost Endless Patience For Enduring Or Simply For Waiting.

Civilizations Die From Philosophical Calm, Irony, And A Sense Of Fair Play Quite As Surely As They Die Of Debauchery.

There Is No Conceivable Human Action Which Custom Has Not At One Time Justified And At Another Condemned.