It is often asserted that discussion is only possible between people who have a common language and accept common basic assumptions. I think that this is a mistake. All that is needed is a readiness to learn from one's partner in the discussion, which includes a genuine wish to understand what he intends to say. If this readiness is there, the discussion will be the more fruitful the more the partner's backgrounds differ.

The history of science, like the history of all human ideas, is a history of irresponsible dreams, of obstinacy, and of error. But science is one of the very f…

It seems to me certain that more people are killed out of righteous stupidity than out of wickedness.

Science must begin with myths, and with the criticism of myths.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

On the contrary, it's because someone knows something about it that we can't talk about physics. It's the things that nobody knows about that we can discuss. W…

You can lead people to truth, but you can't make them understand it: the story of my youth, as seen from the present.