Every measured thing is part of a web of variables more richly interconnected than we know.

The only kind of coercion I recommend is mutual coercion, mutually agreed upon by the majority of the people affected.

The three filters [against folly] operate through these particular questions: Literacy: What are the words? Numeracy: What are the numbers? Ecolacy: And then what?

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

It is a mistake to think that we can control the breeding of mankind in the long run by an appeal to conscience.

The god who is reputed to have created fleas to keep dogs from moping over their situation must also have created fundamentalists to keep rationalists from getting flabby. Let us be duly thankful for out blessings.

Never globalize a problem if it can possibly be dealt with locally.