White pill, blue pill, yellow pill, purple pill; its like swallowing a rainbow every bedtime.
Blind commitment to a theory is not an intellectual virtue: it is an intellectual crime.
Intellectual honesty consists in stating the precise conditions under which one will give up one's belief.
No experimental result can ever kill a theory: any theory can be saved from counterinstances either by some auxiliary hypothesis or by a suitable reinterpretation of its terms.
If even in science there is no a way of judging a theory but by assessing the number, faith and vocal energy of its supporters, then this must be even more so in the social sciences: truth lies in power.
Philosophy of science without history of science is empty; history of science without philosophy of science is blind.
The proving power of the intellect or the senses was questioned by the skeptics more than two thousand years ago; but they were browbeaten into confusion by the glory of Newtonian physics.
All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
When science advances religion goes along with it; science builds the altar at which religion prays.
Fiction is art and art is the triumph over chaos (no less) and we can accomplish this only by the most vigilant exercise of choice, but in a world that changes more swiftly that we can perceive there is always the danger that our powers of selection will be mistaken and that the vision we serve will come to nothing.
Insecurity is the worst sense that lovers feel; sometimes the most humdrum desireless marriage seems better. Insecurity twists meanings and poisons trust.