All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards.

One knows quite well that harmony can be a harmony of appearances.

Copernicanism and other essential ingredients of modern science survived only because reason was frequently overruled in their past.

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them.

When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas of a proper environment and a rewarding life. Doing this, it disrupted the delicate patterns of adaptation and created problems that had not existed before.

No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain