When you close your eyes to tragedy, you close your eyes to greatness.

Consistency is a virtue for trains.

Strange as it may seem, no amount of learning can cure stupidity, and formal education positively fortifies it.

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

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

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?

We now have a whole culture based on the assumption that people know nothing and so anything can be said to them.