In our 'age of the expert' the expert has his constituency - those who have a vested interest in commonly held opinions; elaborating and defining the consensus at a high level has, after all, made him an expert.

Blessed are the people whose leaders can look destiny in the eye without flinching but also without attempting to play God.

If Tehran insists on combining the Persian imperial tradition with contemporary Islamic fervor, then a collision with America - and, indeed, with its negotiati…

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he a…

Does it follow that I reject all authority? Far from me such a thought. In the matter of boots, I refer to the authority of the bootmaker; concerning houses, c…

There is no democracy in physics. We can't say that some second-rate guy has as much right to opinion as Fermi.

In questions of science the authority of a thousand is not worth the humble reasoning of a single individual.