We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

Old age is rather like another country. You will enjoy it more if you have prepared yourself before you go.

A vast technology has been developed to prevent, reduce, or terminate exhausting labor and physical damage. It is now dedicated to the production of the most trivial conveniences and comfort.

A first principle not formally recognized by scientific methodologists: when you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.

I will be dead in a few months. But it hasn't given me the slightest anxiety or worry. I always knew I was going to die.

Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.

I may say that the only differences I expect to see revealed between the behavior of the rat and man (aside from enormous differences of complexity) lie in the field of verbal behavior.