A Universal Good should reflect the reality of the individual benefits that are collected under its name, not the other way around.

Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.

My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.

Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain

Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away.

Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for granted without having ever examined it.

Nervousness always provokes mistakes, and mistakes lead to easy convictions.

Being a hero is about the shortest-lived profession on earth.

Fear is excitement without breath.

The misconception that a victory can be worth its price, has in the nuclear age become a total illusion.

Violent excitement exhausts the mind and leaves it withered and sterile.

The only character I ever remember actually creating in a flash of inspiration was George Liquor. God planted that in my head in an instant.

The more you learn, I think the more you realise who you are and what you want and what you believe and what you want to be and where you want to end up.

The future is not as loud as war, but it is relentless. It has a terrible fury all its own.

... possessiveness cannot accept; it cannot even strike a fair bargain; it has to confer.

The felt presence of immediate experience-- this is all you know. Everything else comes as unconfirmed rumor.