If you gamble long enough, you'll always lose -- the gambler is always ruined.
Do you know what we call opinion in the absence of evidence? We call it prejudice.
In the end, science offers us the only way out of politics. And if we allow science to become politicized, then we are lost. We will enter the Internet version of the dark ages, an era of shifting fears and wild prejudices, transmitted to people who don't know any better.
Nobody is driven by abstractions like 'seeking truth.
False fears are a plague, a modern plague!
We live in a world of frightful givens. It is given that you will behave like this, given that you will care about that. No one thinks about the givens. Isn't it amazing? In the information society, nobody thinks. We expected to banish paper, but we actually banished thought.