Results from a given approach are "facts" as long as the approach fits the group or the tradition that is being addressed.

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.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

…girls were like poems: weird, incomprehensible and boring, but those “in the know” assured me that they were beautiful.

The perfect borscht is what life should be but never is.

Know yourself, to know others.

I can flip my tongue over. Only one in 10,000 people can. I learned that at Ripley's Believe It or Not!

Never forget: the secret of creating riches for oneself is to create them for others.

I love different kinds of movies, and I love different kinds of people. That's the spice of life.

Of all the ways to lose a person, death is the kindest

The movie industry is brutal. It is dangerous. It is, for most, soul destroying.

I think theres something strangely musical about noise.