In the scientific community you find competent teachers and original researchers, just as in the musical community you find many good performers but very few good composers.

Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

One can discern a few very general myths that facilitate the birth of further myths: that everything is possible; that whatever we have failed to explain in normal and earthly terms must have paranormal or supernatural explanations; and that science, being rational, cannot explain the irrational, such as taste and love.

It occurred to me that I had the duty to give society something in exchange for the free education I was getting.

We deem valuable whatever is likely to meet our needs or wishes (individual values) and whatever is likely to help protect or attain social goals (social values). However, this is not a dichotomy, for some individual values, such as truth, are needed to secure some social values, such as mutual trust, and some social values, such as peace, are required to pursue some individual values, such as good health.

Communication accompanies social transactions and can instruct or stultify, mobilize or intimidate, but it is no substitute for production, collaboration and fight.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.