Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life.

An anarchist is like an undercover agent who plays the game of Reason in order to undercut the authority of Reason (Truth, Honesty, Justice and so on).

I do not see why I should be polite to tyrants, who slobber of humanitarianism and think only of their own petty interests.

The material which a scientist actually has at his disposal, his laws, his experimental results, his mathematical techniques, his epistemological prejudices, his attitude towards the absurd consequences of the theories which he accepts, is indeterminate in many ways, ambiguous, and never fully separated from the historical background . This material is always contaminated by principles which he does not know and which, if known, would be extremely hard to test.

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

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.

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