“Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, We must know, we shall know!, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.”

“There is no what if. Only in stories.”

“I do not like to think too much on this Africa. It is too large and too empty, he said. People like De Buys, they astonish me with their courage or perhaps it is a lack in them; they cannot imagin...”

“He leaned into Le Voir’s face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we w...”

“There is no ‘what if’. Only in stories.”

“Ours was the age of enlightenment, he said, when the battle cry was, ‘We must know, we shall know!’, and reason would depose superstition and we be liberated by it.”

“He leaned into Le Voir’s face with the calliper and breathed on him, holding forth on this new science of which calibration was the test; these measurements would describe classes of being and we w...”

“While there is a lower class I am in it. While there is a criminal element I am of it. While there is a soul in prison I am not free.”

“Nothing worth knowing can ever be taught in a classroom.”

“The genius of our ruling class is that it has kept a majority of the people from ever questioning the inequity of a system where most people drudge along paying heavy taxes for which they get nothi...”

“In reaction against the age-old slogan, "woman is the weaker vessel," or the still more offensive, "woman is a divine creature," we have, I think, allowed ourselves to drift into asserting that "a ...”

“Science is the systematic classification of experience.”

“We all behave like Maxwells demon. Organisms organize. In everyday experience lies the reason sober physicists across two centuries kept this cartoon fantasy alive. We sort the mail, build sand cas...”