A scientist, an artist, a citizen is not like a child who needs papa methodology and mama rationality to give him security and direction, he can take care of himself, for he is the inventor not only of laws, theories, pictures, plays, forms of music, ways of dealing with his fellow man, institutions, but also entire world view, he is the inventor of entire forms of like.

Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.

In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand.

Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.

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.

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

Ultimate Reality, if such an entity can be postulated, is ineffable.