"I distrust the perpetually busy; always have. The frenetic ones spinning in tight little circles like poisoned rats. …"

"In the lifetime that has passed since Calvin Coolidge gave his speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors in…"

"A resuscitated orthodoxy, so pervasive as to be nearly invisible, rules the land. Like any religion worth its salt, i…"

"Idleness is not just a psychological necessity, requisite to the construction of a complete human being; it constitut…"

"Could the Church of Work—which today has Americans aspiring to sleep deprivation the way they once aspired to a perso…"

"If we have no time to think, to mull, if we have no time to piece together the sudden associations and unexpected, mi…"

"The alarm rings and we’re off, running so hard that by the time we stop we’re too tired to do much of anything except…"

"Leisure is permissible, we understand, because it costs money; idleness is not, because it doesn’t. Leisure is focuse…"

"Scientific education is catholic; it embraces the whole field of human learning. No student can master all knowledge …"

"Honest investigation is but the application of common sense to the solution of the unknown. Science does not wait on …"