The foundation for a new era was laid but yesterday. The human was given its first chance to become truly civilised when it took courage to question all things and made 'knowledge and understanding' the foundation upon which to create a more reasonable and sensible society of human beings.

Nature is rarely allowed to enter the sacred portals of civilized society.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

The arts are an even better barometer of what is happening in our world than the stock market or the debates in congress.

The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

High in the North in a land called Svithjod there is a mountain. It is a hundred miles long and a hundred miles high and once every thousand years a little bird comes to this mountain to sharpen its beak. When the mountain has thus been worn away a single day of eternity will have passed

Any formal attack on ignorance is bound to fail because the masses are always ready to defend their most precious possession - their ignorance.