The greatest obstacle to being heroic is the doubt whether one may not be going to prove one's self a fool; the truest heroism is to resist the doubt; and the profoundest wisdom, to know when it ought to be resisted, and when to be obeyed.
A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention.
The energy transition presents enormous economic opportunities if we get it right.
"To live is to be haunted by the ghosts of what might have been."
It is remarkable that a science which began with the consideration of games of chance should have become the most important object of human knowledge.