"They put lipstick on the pig to try to sell it to somebody that didn't know what they were buying."

"This method of Bare Attention, so helpful to mind-knowledge and, through it, to world-knowledge, tallies with the procedure and attitude of the true scientist and scholar: clear definition of subject-…"

"If you understand about the natural world, we’re a part of the system and you can’t feed lions grass. But because we have the intelligence to choose… But we haven’t got the gut to allow us to be total…"

"For myself, I said, not in education only but in all things, including education, I prefer voluntary to legal machinery, when the thing can be well done either way."

"My claim is this: science and religion are incompatible because they have different methods for getting knowledge about reality, have different ways of assessing the reliability of that knowledge, and…"