Science is morally neutral, but social science shows us that some moral codes are better than others.

All philosophers can do is to abstain from helping the aggressors and to enjoin social scientists to tell the truth instead of joining the choir of liars and hypocrites.

All genuine philosophy transcends national boundaries. Patriotic philosophies are just nationalist ideologies.

All the electronic devices are weakening the social bonds. Sociologists and psychologists should study this serious threat instead of repeating that communication is the cement of society.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis - the most out of the least.

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

Of course you cannot free yourself from the laws of nature; but the laws of nervous systems are not the same as the physical laws.

Most contemporary philosophers are conservative and eager to keep their jobs.

Original philosophy is always "deviant" or even subversive.

Whereas science elicits changes in order to know, technology knows in order to elicit changes.

Before God does anything, before he makes anything for us to be sustained by, God says, "More than food, more than water, more than shelter, more than other people, they are going to need me.

The idea of stuff just hanging in my closet and not being used - there's a little bit of the African in me that gets bothered by that [somewhat].

If you want to accomplish anything in life, you can't just sit back and hope it will happen. You've got to make it happen.

[Mujahedeen], by the way, don't represent Islam in any formal sense. They're not imams or sheiks. They are self-appointed warriors for Islam.

I won't lie to you, fatherhood isn't easy like motherhood.

Acceptance means commitment, among other things.

Pick up a grain a day and add to your heap. You will soon learn, by happy experience, the power of littles as applied to intellectual processes and gains.

I don't dislike everything I do. Especially with a film, you don't have an easy relationship with it when it's done because it's been your life.

Play for one another, and play the right way. The right way is believing in what's on your chest and not what's on your back.

I like many types of music and probably too many to mention here.