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.

The greatest challenge facing mankind is the challenge of distinguishing reality from fantasy, truth from propaganda.

Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.

Only assholes put a nickname on their business card.

Anyone who says he knows God's intention is showing a lot of very human ego.

One of the most difficult things for a writer in this business to accept is the uncertain fate of one's work.

In the information society, nobody thinks. We expect to banish paper, but we actually banish thought.