I am uncomfortably reminded of the abiding truth of those classic words that never occurred to Horace: “Via ovicipitum dura est,” or, for the benefit of the engineers among you: “The way of the egghead is hard.”

Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965) American diplomat, statesman

Lecture (1954-05-17), “A Troubled World,” Godkin Lectures, No. 1, Harvard University
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Introductory remarks the first session of a four-evening lecture series. Reprinted in the Foreword to Stevenson, Call to Greatness (1954).