We no longer know how to count; we no longer know anything.

A billion--a million millions--the word appears to me printed on the emptiness of things.

It sprang yesterday out of war, and I shrink in dismay from the new, incomprehensible word.
There will be nothing else on the earth but preparation for war.

All living forces will be absorbed by it; it will monopolize all discovery, all science, all imagination.

Supremacy in the air alone, the regular levies for the control of space, will suffice to squander a nation's fortune.