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

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

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.

Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable.

never sacrifice yourself for love, remember it should improve your vision not change your sight

And be content with such things as ye have.

One can go a long way after one is tired.

Our blight is ide­olo­gies — they are the long-expected Antichrist!

One of the reasons I started Tzadik, which is my own label, is to keep things in print. I got tired of labels dropping things out of print when they don't sell.

Every significant event that takes place in our lives is set to some kind of music.

I felt a longing to compose a radical or root poem that would speak to what has its back turned to me.

Dare to walk the path that others have feared to travel, and a leader shall then be born.

The Lion King always makes me cry, especially when Simba's father gets trampled.

Love is a pleasing but a various clime.