Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

Ircumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.

Scientists do not believe in fundamental and absolute certainties. For the scientist, certainty is never an end, but a search; not the ordering of certainty, but its exploration. For the scientist, certainty represents the highest degree of probability.

To admit ignorance is to exhibit wisdom.

Because women live creatively, they rarely experience the need to depict or write about that which to them is a primary experience and which men know only at a second remove. Women create naturally, men create artificially.

The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.

Girls marry for love. Boys marry because of a chronic irritation that causes them to gravitate in the direction of objects with certain curvilinear properties.