Even if you don't believe in God, you still have to believe in something that gives meaning to your life, and shapes your sense of the world. Such a belief is religious.

Discovery is always rape of the natural world. Always.

To give up responsibility for our lives is not healthy.

Conventional wisdom is invariably out of date. Because in the time it has taken to become conventional - to become what everyone believes - the world has moved on. Conventional wisdom is a remnant of the past.

If you don't know history, then you don't know anything. You are a leaf that doesn't know it is part of a tree.

The academic world was marching toward ever more specialized knowledge, expressed in ever more dense jargon.

The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.