I am allowed to use plain English because everybody knows that I could use mathematical logic if I chose.

We must be sceptical even of our scepticism.

Even if the open windows of science at first make us shiver after the cozy indoor warmth of traditional humanizing myths, in the end the fresh air brings vigor, and the great spaces have a splendor of their own.

The . . . increase in the power of officials is a constant source of irritation to everybody else.

Envy is the basis of democracy.

Diet, injections, and injunctions will combine, from a very early age, to produce the sort of character and the sort of beliefs that the authorities consider desirable, and any serious criticism of the powers that be will become psychologically impossible. Even if all are miserable, all will believe themselves happy, because the government will tell them that they are so.

What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry.