Is it possible that I am not alone in believing that in the dispute between Galileo and the Church, the Church was right and the centre of man's universe is the earth?

Consistency is a virtue for trains: what we want from a philosopher is insights, whether he comes by them consistently or not.

You tell me your favorite novelists and I'll tell you whom you vote for, or whether you vote at all.

The war against Vietnam is only the ghastliest manifestation of what I'd call imperial provincialism, which afflicts America's whole culture-aware only of its own history, insensible to everything which isn't part of the local atmosphere.

The truth is that our race survived ignorance; it is our scientific genius that will do us in.

As a rule, the most dangerous ideas are not the ones that divide people but those on which they agree.

Whenever you hear the word "inevitable", watch out! An enemy of humanity has identified himself.