Air power is new to all our countries. It brings advantages to some and weakens others; it calls for readjustment everywhere.
I don’t believe in taking unnecessary risks, but a life without risk isn’t worth living.
All mentally well-balanced persons know that we are not governed by the true principals of social justice when we make the main aim of our social existence the gaining of money.
It is always easier to deal in truth and honesty and follow these to their legitimate ends, than it is to construct and adjust a false superstructure upon a false base.
The greatest danger to this country lies in their large ownership and influence in our motion pictures, our press, our radio and our government.
The essence of life, I concluded, did not lie in the material. It penetrated, but was not bound to, the physical world of science.
I believe that for permanent survival, man must balance science with other qualities of life, qualities of body and spirit as well as those of mind – qualities he cannot develop when he lets mechanics and luxury insulate him too greatly from the earth to which he was born.
I hope you either take up parachute jumping or stay out of single motored airplanes at night.
Science intensifies religious truth by cleansing it of ignorance and superstition.
I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.
How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and of oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.
The improvement of our way of life is more important than the spreading of it. If we make it satisfactory enough, it will spread automatically. If we do not, no strength of arms can permanently oppose it.
Unless science is controlled by a greater moral force, it will become the Antichrist prophesied by the early Christians.
Consciousness grows independent of the ordinary senses.
Democracy can only spring from within a nation itself, only from the hearts and minds of its people.
Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life’s progress would be ended.
At the end of the first half-century of engine-driven flight, we are confronted with the stark fact that the historical significance of aircraft has been primarily military and destructive.
When I watch species other than my own, their instinct’s wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.
What makes human power erupt like a volcano? What destroy’s it? The civilizations of Rome, Greece, Egypt, China were all eruptions from a human core.