To me, being an intellectual doesn't mean knowing about intellectual issues; it means taking pleasure in them.
Dissent is the mark of freedom.
No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.
Certainty ends inquiry.
Every animal leaves traces of what it was; man alone leaves traces of what he created.
A popular cliche in philosophy says that science is pure analysis or reductionism, like taking the rainbow to pieces; and art is pure synthesis, putting the rainbow together. This is not so. All imagination begins by analyzing nature.