The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
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.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.