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“The love of complexity without reductionism makes art; the love of complexity with reductionism makes science.”
― Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
― Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge
“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.”
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“It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies.”
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“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
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“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
― The Conquest of Happiness
― The Conquest of Happiness
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