Maybe you just can't protect people from certain specialized types of folly with any sane amount of regulation, and the correct response is to give up on the high social costs of inadequately protecting people from themselves under certain circumstances.

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.

I only want power so I can get books.

If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

Science has heroes, but no gods. The great Names are not our superiors, or even our rivals, they are passed milestones on our road; and the most important milestone is the hero yet to come.

The people I know who seem to make unusual efforts at rationality, are unusually honest, or, failing that, at least have unusually bad social skills.

There were mysterious questions, but a mysterious answer was a contradiction in terms.