It is wrong to ask who will rule. The ability to vote a bad government out of office is enough. That is democracy.

Plato felt that a complete reconstruction of society's political program was needed.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

Contrary to the outstanding work of art, outstanding theory is susceptible to improvements.

The more we learn about the world, and the deeper our learning, the more conscious, specific, and articulate will be our knowledge of what we do not know, our knowledge of our ignorance

My thesis is that what we call 'science' is differentiated from the older myths not by being something distinct from a myth, but by being accompanied by a second-order tradition-that of critically discussing the myth. ... In a certain sense, science is myth-making just as religion is.

If we are not prepared to defend a tolerant society against the onslaught of the intolerant, then the tolerant will be destroyed, and tolerance with them.