"In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted."

"We owe to Christianity a certain respect for the individual...."

"Science may set limits to knowledge, but it ought not to set limits to imagination."

"Our great democracies still tend to think that a stupid man is more likely to be honest than a clever man, and our politicians take advantage of this prejudice by pretending to be even more stupid tha…"

"The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of mankind, a widely spread belief is more likely t…"