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

The severest trial of oppression is the constant outrage which one suffers at the thought of the oppressor. What Jesus discovered was how to avoid the inner devastations. His technique was to practice the opposite emotion... a man may not get his freedom or possessions back, but he's less miserable. It's a difficult lesson.

The juvenile delinquent does not feel his disturbed personality. The intelligent man does not feel his intelligence or the introvert his introversion.

To require a citizen to sign a loyalty oath is to destroy some of the loyalty he could otherwise claim, since any subsequent loyal behavior may then be attributed to the oath.

Science is a willingness to accept facts even when they are opposed to wishes.

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.

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