"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."
"The murder of Lumumba, in which the U.S. was involved, in the Congo destroyed Africa's major hope for development. Congo is now total horror story, for years."
"Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections."
"We shouldn't be looking for heroes, we should be looking for good ideas."
"Do you train for passing tests or do you train for creative inquiry?"
"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."