"The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable."
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."
"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."
"Theology is the effort to explain the unknowable in terms of the not worth knowing."
"The essence of science is that it is always willing to abandon a given idea for a better one; the essence of theology is that it holds its truths to be eternal and immutable."
"The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens."