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?

Powerful men in particular suffer from the delusion that human beings have no memories. I would go so far as to say that the distinguishing trait of powerful men is the psychotic certainty that people forget acts of infamy as easily as their parents birth

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.

Like all wage slaves, he had two crosses to bear: the people he worked for and the people he worked with

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