Wherever we find orderly, stable systems in Nature, we find that they are hierarchically structured, for the simple reason that without such structur….

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers..

Most of us were not afraid of death, only of the act of dying; and there were times when we overcame even this fear. At such moments we were free-men….

The ultimate truth is penultimately always a falsehood. He who will be proved right in the end appears to be wrong and harmful before it..

The creativity and pathology of the human mind are, after all, two sides of the same medal coined in the evolutionary mint. The first is responsible ….

man has an irrepressible tendency to read meaning into the buzzing confusion of sights and sounds impinging on his senses; and where no agreed meanin….

Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species..

I have repeatedly stressed that the selfish impulses of man constitute a much less historic danger than his integrative tendencies. To put it in the ….

When a person identifies himself with a group his critical faculties are diminished and his passions enhanced by a kind of emotive resonance. The ind….

The Régime did not want Communists; it wanted robots. It will take at least a generation to change them back into humans again..

Some of the greatest discoveries...consist mainly in the clearing away of psychological roadblocks which obstruct the approach to reality; which is w….

...the cosmology of a given age is not the result of unilinear, "scientific" development, but rather the most striking, imaginative symbol of its men….

The most persistent sound which reverberates through man's history is the beating of war drums..

Honor is decency without vanity..

The 'missing link' between ape and man will probably never be found- because it was an embryo..

Without the hard little bits of marble which are called 'facts' or 'data' one cannot compose a mosaic; what matters, however, are not so much the ind….

Scientists are peeping toms at the keyhole of eternity..

One may not regard the world as a sort of metaphysical brothel for emotions..

In the meantime, the educated public continues to believe that Darwin has provided all the relevant answers by the magic formula of random mutations ….

The more original a discovery, the more obvious it seems afterwards..

The discoveries of yesterday are the truisms of tomorrow, because we can add to our knowledge but cannot subtract from it..