I think every writer should have tattooed backwards on his forehead, like ambulance on ambulances, the words 'everybody needs an editor.

Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.

Safety is the last refuge of the scoundrel!

The work of science has nothing whatever to do with consensus. Consensus is the business of politics. Science, on the contrary, requires only one investigator who happens to be right, which means that he or she has results that are verifiable by reference to the real world. In science consensus is irrelevant. What is relevant is reproducible results. The greatest scientists in history are great precisely because they broke with the consensus.

It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

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

It's better to die laughing than to live each moment in fear.