What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.