It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

Proclaim human equality as loudly as you like, Witless will serve his brother.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

I claim that all those who think they can cherry-pick science simply don't understand how science works. That's what I claim. And if they did, they'd be less prone to just assert that somehow scientists are clueless.

The ideas of science germinate in a matrix of established knowledge gained by experiment; they are not lonesome thoughts, born in a rarified realm where no researcher has ever gone before.

My only incentive is to write music that changes me, where the process of making it is a discovery and is true in some way, at that moment.

Modem science, then, maintains on the one hand that nature, both organic and inorganic, strives towards a state of order and that man's actions are governed by the same tendency.