Humane science must be adapted to the requirements of a balanced and rewarding life..

The validity of usefulness, adequacy of popular standards can be tested only by research that violates them..

Taking experimental results and observations for granted and putting the burden of proof on the theory means taking the observational ideology for gr….

No theory ever agrees with all the facts in its domain, yet it is not always the theory that is to blame. Facts are constituted by older ideologies, ….

Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation..

One knows quite well that harmony can be a harmony of appearances..

There is no "scientific worldview" just as there is no uniform enterprise "science" - except in the minds of metaphysicians, school masters, and scie….

I had studied Dadaism after the Second World War. What attracted me to this movement was the style its inventors used when not engaged in Dadaistic a….

All religion may be centered around a generally good idea, however, this has not stopped its adherents from acting like bastards..

Early Chinese thinkers had taken variety at face value. They had favored diversification and collected anomalies instead of trying to explain them aw….

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 limitati….

A free society is a society in which all traditions have equal rights and equal access to the centers of power. A tradition receives these rights not….

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 pos….

In a war a totalitarian state has a free hand..

The sciences of today are business enterprises run on business principles. Research in large institutes is not guided by Truth and Reason but by the ….

The attitude of the Church was not as dogmatic as is often assumed. Interpretations of Bible passages had been revised in the light of scientific res….

The only principle that does not inhibit progress is: anything goes..

When Western civilization invaded the Near and Far East and what is now called the Third World it imposed its own ideas of a proper environment and a….

There is not a single rule, however plausible, and however firmly grounded in epistemology, that is not violated at some time or other. It becomes ev….

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 tradi….

Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence. Modern scie….