The world isn't kept running because it's a paying proposition. (God doesn't make a cent on the deal.) The world goes on because a... few men in every generation believe in it utterly, accept it unquestioningly; they underwrite it with their lives.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To believe in something not yet proved and to underwrite it with our lives: it is the only way we can leave the future open. Man, ...surrounded by facts, permitting himself no surmise, no intuitive flash, no great hypothesis, no risk, is in a locked cell. Ignorance cannot seal the mind and imagination more surely.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »