“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.”

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

“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.”

“Einstein's theory, experimentally corroborated for the last hundred years, regardless of how outlandish and opposed to our prejudices (disguised as they are with the 'common sense' costume), is rational, consistent, and intelligible to the layperson - if s/he has the audacity of accepting the unfounded nature of those prejudices.”

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

“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.”