"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."
"Our only real hope for democracy is that we get the money out of politics entirely and establish a system of publicly funded elections."
"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?"
"I hope that a move toward clemency with Judge Afiuni would be a step towards the importance of maintaining a properly functioning justice system."
"Either you repeat the same conventional doctrines everybody is saying, or else you say something true, and it will sound like it's from Neptune."