Powerful people get away with things. That's one way to demonstrate their difference from the rest of us.

Creeds and causal systems have argued with each other for millennia, and even so we and our ancestors have managed to live in a world of differing opinions. Philosophical disputes don't often affect the price of fish or wine.

We haven't come a long way, we've come a short way. If we hadn't come a short way, no one would be calling us baby.

If there's nothing more powerful than an idea whose time has come, there is nothing more ubiquitously pervasive than an idea whose time won't go.

Great writers leave us not just their works, but a way of looking at things.

How can you communicate your thoughts or demonstrate your hypotheses by conventional means when all the values and standards that you want to challenge are built into those means? Science and new technology today like to declare that they encourage 'lateral thinking,' new ways of seeing and putting data together - but all systems have an inbuilt resistance to what has not been programmed into them through the premises on which their rules are based.

If one is going to change things, one has to make a fuss and catch the eye of the world.