"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."
"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 trouble with Communism is the Communists, just as the trouble with Christianity is the Christians."
"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."
"The older I grow, the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom."