The Survival Value Of Intelligence

Rationalism Is An Attitude Of Readiness To Listen To Contrary Arguments And To Learn From Experience... Of Admitting That "i May Be Wrong And You May Be Right And, By An Effort, We May Get Nearer The Truth."

The Best Thing That Can Happen To A Human Being Us To Find A Problem, To Fall In Love With That Problem, And To Live Trying To Solve That Problem, Unless Another Problem Even More Lovable Appears.

Unlimited Tolerance Must Lead To The Disappearance Of Tolerance. If We Extend Unlimited Tolerance Even To Those Who Are Intolerant, If We Are Not Prepared To Defend A Tolerant Society, Then The Tolerant Will Be Destroyed, And Tolerance With Them. We Should Therefore Claim, In The Name Of Tolerance, The Right Not To Tolerate The Intolerant.

The Conspiracy Theory Of Society... [is] A Typical Result Of The Secularization Of A Religious Superstition. The Belief In The Homeric Gods Whose Conspiracies Explain The History Of The Trojan War Is Gone. The Gods Are Abandoned. But Their Place Is Filled By Powerful Men Or Groups - Sinister Pressure Groups Whose Wickedness Is Responsible For All The Evils We Suffer From - Such As The Learned Elders Of Zion, Or The Monopolists, Or The Capitalists, Or The Imperialists.

The Difference Between The Amoeba And Einstein Is That, Although Both Make Use Of The Method Of Trial And Error Elimination, The Amoeba Dislikes Erring While Einstein Is Intrigued By It.