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

To state a lie firmly, categorically and with great authority, undeterred by the fact that all concerned know it to be a lie, is one of the principal activities defined by the term practising law.

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?

Most bad books get that way because their authors are engaged in trying to justify themselves. If a vain author is an alcoholic, then the most sympathetically portrayed character in his book will be an alcoholic. This sort of thing is very boring for outsiders.

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

Great writers are not those who tell us we shouldn’t play with fire, but those who make our fingers burn.