...and knowledge is one of the finest attributes of man - though often it is most loudly voiced by those who strive for it the least.

It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler.

We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today.

Epistemology without contact with science becomes an empty scheme. Science without epistemology is-insofar as it is thinkable at all-primitive and muddled.

Gradually the conviction gained recognition that all knowledge about things is exclusively a working-over of the raw material furnished by the senses. ... Galileo and Hume first upheld this principle with full clarity and decisiveness.

By academic freedom I understand the right to search for truth and to publish and teach what one holds to be true. This right implies also a duty: one must not conceal any part of what on has recognized to be true. It is evident that any restriction on academic freedom acts in such a way as to hamper the dissemination of knowledge among the people and thereby impedes national judgment and action.