Facts are constituted by older ideologies, and a clash between facts and theories may be proof of progress.

Given any rule, however �fundamental� or �necessary� for science, there are always circumstances when it is advisable not only to ignore the rule, but to adopt its opposite.

The only absolute truth is that there are no absolute truths.

The separation of state and church must be complemented by the separation of state and science, that most recent, most aggressive, and most dogmatic religious institution.

Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.

My intention is not to replace one set of general rules by another such set: my intention is, rather, to convince the reader that all methodologies, even the most obvious ones, have their limits.

Traditions are neither good nor bad, they simply are... Rationality is not an arbiter of traditions, it is itself a tradition or an aspect of a tradition.

Teachers' using grades and the fear of failure mould the brains of the young until they have lost every ounce of imagination they might once have possessed.

No single theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain

Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them away.

Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for granted without having ever examined it.

It is impossible to make time but you can always make a commitment.

It is easy to see the glow but hard to recognize the awakening of silence.

If I were married, I would be unmarried.

General Taylor never surrenders.

I need fiction like you need to eat or exercise.

Love can complete you. It can also destroy you.

It is often just as important to be perceived as something as actually to be that something and, as a matter of fact, a candidate need not be anything ideologically at all.

There was something in her movements that made you think she never walked but always danced.

It seems to me that everything that happens to us is a disconcerting mix of choice and contingency.

The hand that hath made you fair hath made you good. Pity is the virtue of the law, and none but tyrants use it cruelly.