Among all the world's races, some obscure Bedouin tribes possibly apart, Americans are the most prone to misinformation. This is not the consequence of any special preference for mendacity, although at the higher levels of their public administration that tendency is impressive. It is rather that so much of what they themselves believe is wrong.

In economics, hope and faith coexist with great scientific pretension and also a deep desire for respectability.

The Senate has unlimited debate; in the House, debate is ruthlessly circumscribed. There is frequent discussion as to which technique most effectively frustrat…

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate orga…

'No man -prince, peasant, pope, -has all the light, who says else is a mountebank. I claim no private lien on truth, only a liberty to seek it, prove it in deb…

If they leave college thinking, as they usually do, that science offers a full, accurate, and literal description of man and Nature; if they think scientific r…

One of the most frightening things in the Western world, and in this country in particular, is the number of people who believe in things that are scientifical…