Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.

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.

the companions of our childhood always possess a certain power over our minds which hardly any later friend can obtain.

Any idiot can face a crisis - it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.

I think we're actually the only sport that has a mix of men and women competing together. The majority of other sports are separated by gender.

I changed my name because it didn't fit with the way I saw myself.

I looked into her eyes. "Mom, who do you pray to?" I just pray, Daniel. That's all.

Pick a big enough project, something that's really hard, something that over the years you can work on.

This whole theory of alienation that intellectuals have been passing on, really is just to stop a lot of ham acting. If you fill something with a proper emotion, it didn't worry him at all.

The reason I can't follow the old eye-for-an-eye philosophy is that it ends up leaving everyone blind.

I think more and more respect has been accorded to teachers, and quite rightly so.

I just read about a schoolteacher who got hurt. She was grading papers on a curve!