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

Perhaps in a book review it is not out of place to note that the safety of the state depends on cultivating the imagination.

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?

Consistency is a virtue for trains.

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.