I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would b... - Noam Chomsky

"Science is a bit like the joke about the drunk who is looking under a lamppost for a key that he has lost on the other side of the street, because that's where the light is. It has no other choice."

"Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?"

"We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas."

"The whole educational and professional training system is a very elaborate filter, which just weeds out people who are too independent, and who think for themselves, and who don't know how to be submissive, and so on -- because they're dysfunctional to the institutions."

"I was never aware of any other option but to question everything."