It seems that American patriotism measures itself against an outcast group. The right Americans are the right Americans because they're not like the wrong Americans, who are not really Americans.

The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.

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

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

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.

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

The imagined community of millions seems more real as a team of eleven named people.