More than any other product of human scientific culture scientific knowledge is the collective property of all mankind.

The human mind, in taking us down the path of technocracy, has become the adversary of life itself and collaterally the adversary of the human soul.

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

There is no faith which has never yet been broken, except that of a truly faithful dog

If you confine yourself to this Skinnerian technique, you study nothing but the learning apparatus and you leave out everything that is different in octopi, crustaceans, insects and vertebrates. In other words, you leave out everything that makes a pigeon a pigeon, a rat a rat, a man a man, and, above all, a healthy man healthy and a sick man sick.

I see the creative accomplishments of which highly gifted humans are capable as special cases of the universal creative process, that game played by everyone against everyone else, from which wells up all that has never been before.

Evil, by definition, is that which endangers the good, and the good is that which we perceive as a value.