What we need to do is to humanize the scientist and simonize the humanist.

The main issue [of the Scientific Revolution] is that the people in the industrialised countries are getting richer, and those in the non-industrialised countries are at best standing still: so the gap between the industrialised countries and the rest is widening every day. On the world scale this is the gap between the rich and the poor.

Advertising degrades the people it appeals to; it deprives them of their will to choose.

The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.

This ability to incorporate the past gives the sharpest diagnostic tool, if one asks whether a body of knowledge is a science or not. Do present practitioners have to go back to an original work of the past? Or has it been incorporated? ... Science is cumulative, and embodies its past.

The scientific process has two motives: one is to understand the natural world, the other is to control it.

Nothing is easier to avoid than publicity. If one genuinely doesn't want it, one doesn't get it.