People having religions is an insult to the universe.

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

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

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

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

Physics has never been a comfortable subject for human psychology. The desire to regard everything outside the human race's purview as insignificant, and everything within that purview as firmly under the control of tribal myth and custom, is as strong today as it was in the time of Galileo.

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.