The human race's favorite method for being in control of facts is to ignore them.

Most of the research which is done is determined by the requirement that it shall, in a fairly obvious and predictable way, reinforce the approved or fashionable theories.

People have been marrying and bringing up children for centuries now. Nothing has ever come of it.

The way to do research is to attack the facts at the point of greatest astonishment.

The remarkable thing about the human mind is its range of limitations.

In an autocracy, one person has his way; in an aristocracy, a few people have their way; in a democracy, no one has his way.

That society exists to frustrate the individual may be seen from its attitude to work. It is only morally acceptable if you do not want to do it. If you do want to, it becomes a personal pleasure.