Having no unusual coincidence is far more unusual than any coincidence could possibly be.

Science is a set of rules to keep us from telling lies to each other. All scientists really have is a reputation for telling the truth.

We mythologists know very well that myths and legends contain borrowings, moral lessons, nature cycles, and a hundred other distorting influences, and we labor to cut them away and get to what might be a kernel of truth. In fact, these same techniques must be applied to the most sober histories, for no one writes the clear and apparent truth-if such a thing can even be said to exist.

To test a perfect theory with imperfect instruments did not impress the Greek philosophers as a valid way to gain knowledge.

It takes more than capital to swing business. You've got to have the A. I. D. degree to get by - Advertising, Initiative, and Dynamics.

The dangers that face the world can, every one of them, be traced back to science. The salvations that may save the world will, every one of them, be traced back to science.

Theories are not so much wrong as incomplete