[…] So far, knowledge is confined to the one case of natural transmutation, that of the heavier elements into ones of lesser atomic weight with evolution of energy. It seems natural to assume that the elements of greater atomic weight possess, generally, greater intrinsic internal energy than lighter ones. If this be so, the transmutation of silver into gold would be, in all probability, a ruinous process. It is probable that, if ever transmutation becomes practically possible, the material products of the process will be of little more account than the products of combustion of the furnaces of the industrial world to day. With energy at its present value, no known elementary substance, probably, is so valuable that it could be built up with profit from elements of less atomic weight, owing to the enormous expenditure of energy required, or that could not be disintegrated into lighter forms, were this possible, for the sake of the energy that would be obtained. [...]

Herbert Marcuse: I am very happy to see so many flowers here, and that is why I want to remind you that flowers, by themselves, have no power whatsoever, other than the power of men and women who protect them and take care of them against aggression and destruction. As a hopeless philosopher from whom philosophy has become inseparable from politics, I am afraid I have to give here today a rather a rather philosophical speech and I must ask your indulgence for it. We are dealing with the dialectics of liberation. Actually redundant, because I believe that all dialectic is liberation, and not only liberation in an intellectual sense, but liberation involving the mind and the body, liberation involving the entire human existence. Now as to today and our own situation. I think we are faced with a novel situation in wisdom, because today we have to be liberated from a relatively well-functioning, rich powerful society. [...]

Dem Durchleuchtigsten / Großmächtigsten Fürsten und Herrn / Herrn Ludwigen dem Eylfften dieses Namens / Königen in Franckreich / Navarren / etc. Meinem Gnädigsten Herren.