Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
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.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.