The brain upon which my experiences havebeen written is not a particularly good one. If there were brain-shows, as there are cat anddog shows, I doubt if it would get even a third class prize.

The catastrophe of the atomic bombs whichshook men out of cities and businesses and economic relations, shook them also out of their old-established habits of thought, and out of the lightly held beliefs and prejudices that came down to them from the past.

The professional military mind is by necessityan inferior and unimaginative mind; no man of high intellectual quality would willingly imprison his gifts in such a calling.

Nothing could have been more obvious to the people of the earlier twentieth century thanthe rapidity with which war was becomingimpossible. And as certainly they did not see it. They did not see it until the atomic bombs burst in their fumbling hands.

Are we not Men?

Would you like to see the Time Machine itself?

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

Religions are such stuff as dreams are made of.

We live in reference to past experience and not to future events, however inevitable.

It is only now and then, in a jungle, or amidst the towering white menace of a burnt or burning Australian forest, that Nature strips the moral veils from vegetation and we apprehend its stark ferocity.