“Popular medicine and popular morality belong together and ought not to be evaluated so differently as they still are: both are the most dangerous pseudo-sciences.”
“The phrase ‘popular science’ has in itself a touch of absurdity. That knowledge which is popular is not scientific.”
“The most popular labor saving device is still money.”
“[M]onarchy was, or ought to be, not so much absolute as mitigated by the principle of ius politicum, supporting a mixed polity partaking of elements both royal and political, which is to say, popular and representative.”
“Popular disregard, even disdain, for demonstrable truth is the most dangerous thing that can happen to a democracy.”
“As the popularity of science-fiction increases, so inevitably does the volume of clownish imprecation against it.”