“How wonderful that we have met with a paradox. Now we have some hope of making progress.”
“Women used to have time to make mince pies and had to fake orgasms. Now we can manage the orgasms, but we have to fake the mince pies. And they call this progress.”
“What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books. ”
“Paradox: how do we know what we have failed to see because we have no language to express it, thus we cannot know that we have failed to see it.”
“The Victorian Age, for all its humbug, was a period of rapid progress, because men were dominated by hope rather than fear. If we are again to have progress, we must again be dominated by hope.”
“It makes you wonder. All the brilliant things we might have done with our lives if only we suspected we knew how.”