First-world science is one science among many; by claiming to be more it ceases to be an instrument of research and turns into a (political) pressure group.

Knowledge is not a series of self-consistent theories that converges toward an ideal view; it is rather an ever increasing ocean of mutually incompatible (and perhaps even incommensurable) alternatives, each single theory, each fairy tale, each myth that is part of the collection forcing the others into greater articulation and all of them contributing, via this process of competition, to the development of our consciousness.

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

The best education consists in immunizing people against systematic attempts at education.

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

Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.

Mathematical Reasoning is not only exact; it has its own criteria of reality.