"Information is not power. Power is power. But what turns information into power is action."

“I think my science career had an arc to it that peaked in, let's say 2003/2004. I was in hog heaven, working in a corporation, getting paid pretty good money and doing really exciting research. And we had just done the Cool To Be You record, and I said well, we'll put this record out, but I can't tour it because I just want to do science. That's my gig, my future.”

Source : Source: vandalamagazine.com

“If a blending of individualism and of cooperative participation is a prerequisite to a democratic solution of the problems of a society of free men, it must also be noted that an atmosphere of freedom is required if these problems are to be met constructively and as they arise.”

Source : Marshall Field (1945). “Freedom is More Than a Word”

“My thoughts and I were of another world.”

Source : Ben Jonson, William Gifford (1859). “The works of Ben Jonson”

“I hope that this medal inspires the kids at home to put down guns and knives and pick up a pair of trainers instead.”

“It's always wise to raise questions about the most obvious and simple assumption”

Source : "The Systems Approach" by C. West Churchman, (p. ix), 1968.

“I took two fiction-writing courses in college and majored in literature. I felt that I had a knack though I wouldn't go so far as to call it a talent. But it scared me. I felt it was a childish thing wanting to write and that I would forget about it eventually.”

“In politics, what begins in fear usually ends in folly.”

“Nothing in this world is so good as usefulness. It binds your fellow-creatures to you, and you to them; it tends to the improvement of your own character; and it gives you a real importance in society, much beyond what any artificial station can bestow.”