Historians are to nationalism what poppy-growers in Pakistan are to heroin-addicts: we supply the essential raw material for the market.

Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved.

It is a melancholy illusion of those who write books and articles that the printed word survives. Alas, it rarely does.

The greatest cruelties of our century have been the impersonal cruelties of remote decision, of system and routine, especially when they could be justified as regrettable operational necessity.

There is not much that even the most socially responsible scientists can do as individuals, or even as a group, about the social consequences of their activities.

All professionals, whether physicists, economists or musicians, live by and for peer judgment, even when they are being paid by people who cannot tell the difference.

Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.