“النقص ليس في الذكاء الذي هو متوفر بكثرة، و لكنه في التدريب المنظم على التفكير النقدي الذي هو سلعة نادرة”

“الزيف في الحياة منتشر كالماء و الهواء و هو السر الذي يجعل من باطن الإنسان حقيقة نادرة قد تخفى عن بصيرته في الوقت الذي تتجلى فيه لأعين الجميع”

“و العالم الذي نراه ليس هو العالم الحقيقي، إنما هو عالم اصطلاحي بحت نعيش فيه متعلقين في الرموز الذي خلقها عقلنا ليدلنا على الأشياء التي لا يعرف ماهية أو كنها”

“In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.”

“Science is a way to call the bluff of those who only pretend to knowledge. It is a bulwark against mysticism, against superstition, against religion misapplied to where it has no business being.”

“In college, in the early 1950s, I began to learn a little about how science works, the secrets of its great success, how rigorous the standards of evidence must be if we are really to know something is true, how many false starts and dead ends have plagued human thinking, how our biases can colour our interpretation of evidence, and how often belief systems widely held and supported by the political, religious and academic hierarchies turn out to be not just slightly in error, but grotesquely wrong.”

“The others would then fall silent and she would continue about doped gallium arsenide detectors, or the ethanol content of the galactic cloud W-3. The quantity of 200-proof alcohol in this single interstellar cloud was more than enough to maintain the present population of the Earth, if every adult were a dedicated alcoholic, for the age of the solar system. The tamada had appreciated the remark.”