"A Battered Wife Survives", (1978)
Letters from a War Zone: Writings 1976-1987
“I leave to the Judgement of those who have thought it worth their while to peruse what I have published”
Dr. Wallis's Account of some Passages of his own Life (1696)
Context: I made it my business to examine things to the bottom; and reduce effects to their first principles and original causes. Thereby the better to understand the true ground of what hath been delivered to us from the Antients, and to make further improvements of it. What proficiency I made therein, I leave to the Judgement of those who have thought it worth their while to peruse what I have published therein from time to time; and the favorable opinion of those skilled therein, at home and abroad. <!--p. clxv
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Cited in Awake! magazine, 1995, 8/22; article: The Evils of Nazism Exposed.
In 1933, The Golden Age carried the first of many reports of the existence of concentration camps in Germany. In 1938, Jehovah’s Witnesses published the book Crusade Against Christianity, in French, German, and Polish. It carefully documented the vicious Nazi attacks on the Witnesses and included diagrams of the Sachsenhausen and Esterwegen concentration camps.
“I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.”
The Decline and Fall of Science (1976)

Denis Papin, as quoted by Bernard Forest de Bélidor, Architecture Hydraulique Vol.2 https://books.google.com/books?id=tBkWAAAAYAAJ, p. 309 Tr. Patrick Muirhead, The Life of James Watt https://books.google.com/books?id=MeJUAAAAcAAJ (1859) p. 145

“To know what life is worth you have to risk it once in a while.”
Source: No Exit and Three Other Plays

"What I Believe", The Listener, 1929. Quoted in Clifton Fadiman, I Believe, London, George Allen and Unwin, 1940.

"Discoveries About Myself". Motion Picture, October 1930, pg. 90. (Brewster Publications). https://archive.org/stream/motionpicture1923040chic#page/n595/mode/2up

"Sense and Sensibility"
The Common Sense of Science (1951)