Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.

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.

Hand over your responses to the man who triggers them, and you have already lost the battle for self. Look beyond, and find yourself there instead.

No doctor takes pleasure in the health even of his friends.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

At home, I love reaching out into that absolute silence, when you can hear the owl or the wind.

In almost every area of human endeavor, the practice improves over time. That hasn't been the case for teaching.

As free and crazy as we want to be, and how much we want to make the world a canvas, there's also a part of us that doesn't want to make any mark.

All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

Helpful is the new viral.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around.

Mandela means a lot to the world. He's something special. There's only a few people in the history of mankind with that kind of charisma.