Out of man's mind in free play comes the creation Science. It renews itself, like the generations, thanks to an activity which is the best game of homo ludens: science is in the strictest and best sense a glorious entertainment.

Since in every European country between 1870 and 1914 there was a war party demanding armaments, an individualist party demanding ruthless competition, an imperialist party demanding a free hand over backward peoples, a socialist party demanding the conquest of power and a racialist party demanding internal purges against aliens - all of them, when appeals to greed and glory failed, invoked Spencer and Darwin, which was to say science incarnate.

no subject of study is more important than reading…all other intellectual powers depend on it.

To denounce does not free the self from what it hates, any more than ignoring the past shuts off its influence.

Highly-adaptive, informal networks move diagonally and eliptically, skipping entire functions to get things done.

Only a great mind that is overthrown yields tragedy

Science is, in the best and strictest sense, glorious entertainment