To serve the public interest is not the same as being a servant of public opinion.

Nonetheless, it still remains true that as a set of cognitive beliefs, religious doctrines constitute a speculative hypothesis of an extremely low order of probability.

The difference between science and religion is that the former wishes to get rid of mysteries whereas the latter worships them.

Those who say that life is worth living at any cost have already written an epitaph of infamy, for there is no cause and no person that they will not betray to stay alive.

The easiest rationalization for the refusal to seek the truth is the denial that truth exists.

Idealism, alas, does not protect one from ignorance, dogmatism, and foolishness.

Everyone recognizes a distinction between knowledge and wisdom. . . Wisdom is a kind of knowledge. It is knowledge of the nature, career, and consequences of human values. Since these cannot be separated from the human organism and the social scene, the moral ways of man cannot be understood without knowledge of the ways of things and institutions.