In the sciences particularly the large public universities must and do take an active role in fostering creativity and independence; otherwise the fields will wither, and along with them even the aspirations of wealth and power.

The United States is a very insular society. Most people know very little about the outside world and don't care that much. They're concerned with their own affairs.

I see no anti-Semitic implications in denial of the existence of gas chambers, or even denial of the Holocaust.

That intellectuals, including academics, would become a "new class" of technocrats, claiming the name of science while cooperating with the powerful, was predicted by [Mikhail] Bakunin in the early days of the formation of the modern intelligentsia in the 19th century.

People don't have knowledge and understanding about the outside world, or about history [in the USA].

When I am at home, I never watch TV, but when I am abroad in a hotel I take a look at the BBC to find out what's going on.

If there was an observer on Mars, they would probably be amazed that we have survived this long.