“Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.”

“It is the hallmark of an educated person to remain skeptical of accepted views and to regard even the most popular beliefs as working assumptions.”

“But this is the kind of thing that fiction is: it's the unlivable life, the strange room tacked onto the house, the extra moon that is circling the earth unbeknownst to science.”

“The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species.”

“Note, please, that I condemn only junk science (as does Mr Delingpole): this is in fact a measure of my, and his, regard for good science. Junk bonds do not, by their existence, condemn the existence of markets; crony capitalism – which is indissolubly tied to the ‘Green’ movement and its loudest advocates, who are bought and paid for by cronyism – does not condemn capitalism; junk science does not invalidate science as a discipline. Indeed, the greatest and most implacable enemies of junk bonds are and by rights ought to be traders; of crony capitalism, capitalists; and of junk science, those who hold true science in its just regard.”

“Mistaking insolence for freedom has always been the hallmark of the slave.”