Mistakes

“The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.” – Edward John Phelps

Purity

“Reducing truly dangerous amounts of impurities from water or air may be done at costs that most people would agree were quite reasonable. But, as higher and higher standards of purity are prescribed by government, in order to eliminate ever more minute traces of ever...

Capitalism & Socialism

“I was guilty of judging capitalism by its operations and socialism by its hopes and aspirations; capitalism by its works and socialism by its literature. To this day, this error and its disastrous consequences are observable in the judgment and behavior of some...

Progress

“Not blind opposition to progress, but opposition to blind progress…” ― John Muir