Knowledge Is Not A Loose Leaf Notebook

This Is The Concentration Camp And Crematorium At Auschwitz. This Is Where People Were Turned Into Numbers. Into This Pond Were Flushed The Ashes Of Some Four Million People. And That Was Not Done By Gas. It Was Done By Arrogance. It Was Done By Dogma. It Was Done By Ignorance. When People Believe That They Have Absolute Knowledge, With No Test In Reality, This Is How They Behave.

Ask An Impertinent Question And You Are On The Way To The Pertinent Answer.

No Science Is Immune To The Infection Of Politics And The Corruption Of Power. ... The Time Has Come To Consider How We Might Bring About A Separation, As Complete As Possible, Between Science And Government In All Countries. I Call This The Disestablishment Of Science, In The Same Sense In Which The Churches Have Been Disestablished And Have Become Independent Of The State.

The Hand Is The Cutting Edge Of The Mind.

It Is A Mistake To Think Of Creative Activity As Something Unusual