"An exact science is one that admits loss."

"A well-understood and testable hypothesis like sexual selection surely trumps an untestable appeal to the i…"

"The final lines are not mine: they come from an experiment on soft matter, after Boudin… An English transla…"

"Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths."

"If I read a book [and] it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry. If I…"

"The noble Earl, Lord Curzon, stated that he could not understand how it is that we, the Party who have alwa…"

"I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it."