We do not believe any group of men adequate enough or wise enough to operate without scrutiny or without criticism. We know that the only way to avoid error is to detect it, that the only way to detect it is to be free to inquire. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

No man should escape our universities without knowing how little he knows.

The best way to send information is to wrap it up in a person.

The Vedas are the greatest privilege of this century.

We know that the wages of secrecy are corruption. We know that in secrecy error, undetected, will flourish and subvert.

Science starts with preconception, with the common culture, and with common sense. It moves on to observation, is marked by the discovery of paradox, and is then concerned with the correction of preconception. It moves then to use these corrections for the designing of further observation and for more refined experiment. And as it moves along this course the nature of the evidence and experience that nourish it becomes more and more unfamiliar; it is not just the language that is strange [to common culture].

Things which stimulate my curiosity are pretty far removed from the practical and therefore from classification.