For every fact there is an infinity of hypotheses. - Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."

"The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure nature hasn’t misled you into thinking you know something you actually don’t know."

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called a Religion."

"We have artists with no scientific knowledge and scientists with noartistic knowledge and both with no spiritual sense of gravity at all,and the result is not just bad, it is ghastly."

"You are never dedicated to something you have complete confidence in. No one is fanatically shouting that the sun is going to rise tomorrow. They know it's going to rise tomorrow. When people are fanatically dedicated to political or religious faiths or any other kinds of dogmas or goals, it's always because these dogmas or goals are in doubt."