“The command of our language is crucial to focusing our thoughts and communicating them with precision to others.”

“The existence of both (electron and pebble) depends upon the context created by our thoughts, our language, our theories, and our interaction (experimentation) with our external world.”

“If Relativity Theory kills our deepest convictions, why not start by finding out why we believed in them for millennia?”

“The notion of Local Inertial Frame is crucial to understanding Nature and, in particular, General Relativity. Notwithstanding, very few popular science books (not even textbooks) emphasize enough its fundamental character.”

“Teaching the layperson (divulgare) is not distorting (tergiversare) the subject, but educating the public; and it is our duty as scientists to educate without distorting the essence of the scientific knowledge attained by humanity. The future of our society depends upon this premise.”

“It is not the reverence for words, but for their meaning that determines our deepness of comprehension of a given assertion about Nature.”

“A good part of what appears to us - prima facie - as objective reality is, instead, just a consequence of our conventions to discover it.”