"She knows her man, and when you rant and swear,Can draw you to her with a single hair."

"We have numerous, extremely naïve assumptions built into our thinking, and our most venerable explanatory e…"

"In its broad sense, civilization means not only comfort in daily necessities but also the refining of knowl…"

"Until the seventeenth century there was no concept of evidence with which to pose the problem of induction!"

"Hitchens: I've got another question for you, which is this: How many religions in the world do you believe …"

"He was not merely a chip of the old Block, but the old Block itself."

"How helpless human beings are—in fact, how helpless all beings are! How hopelessly dependent we are upon th…"