If you stand up to the human race you lose something called their 'goodwill'; if you kowtow to them you gain ... their permission to continue kowtowing.

I cannot write long books; I leave that for those who have nothing to say.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

Society expresses its sympathy for the geniuses of the past to distract attention from the fact that it has no intention of being sympathetic to the geniuses of the present.

A narrow mind and a wide mouth usually go together.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

When someone says his conclusions are objective, he means that they are based on prejudices which many other people share.

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

One of the greatest superstitions of our time is the belief that it has none.

The human race has to be bad at psychology; if it were not, it would understand why it is bad at everything else.

The only important thing to realise about history is that it all took place in the last five minutes.

And a leader has to command confidence, and consent.

Innovation is a man made change that we see with a sense of wonder.

This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read.

If there's anything that is the center of my career both creatively and emotionally, it's the Olympics.

I had a couple of friends, but I was mostly the kid with his nose in a book.

If experimenters have free will, then so do elementary particles.

I think our system is being polluted by money.

An e-mail from a reader says that liberals like to take the moral high ground, even though their own moral relativism means that there is no moral high ground.

No degree of worldly darkness can extinguish the glow of a soul's inner light.