Research is a way of taking calculated risks to bring about incalculable consequences.

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.

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.

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

It is inconceivable that anything should be existing. It is not inconceivable that a lot of people should also be existing who are not interested in the fact that they exist. But it is certainly very odd.

Lack of clarity is always a sign of dishonesty.

The psychology of committees is a special case of the psychology of mobs.