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“Self-education is, I firmly believe, the only kind of education there is.”
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“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.'”
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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
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“Those people who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.”
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“Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived.”
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