There were two things I used to do to seduce girls: jokes and music. Since I’m not a great pianist, jokes were my thing.

Asia is not going to be civilised after the methods of the West. There is too much Asia and she is too old.

The ultimate Truth is so simple. It is nothing more than being in the pristine state. This is all that need be said. till, it is a wonder that to teach this simple Truth there should come into being so many religions, creeds, methods and disputes among them and so on! Oh the pity! Oh the pity!

The proper method for inquiring after the properties of things is to deduce them from experiments.

The idea that we must choose between the method of “winning hearts and minds” and the method of shaping behavior presumes that we have the right to choose at all. This is to grant us a right that we would surely accord to no other power. Yet the overwhelming body of American scholarship accords us this right.

The method of “postulating” what we want has many advantages; they are the same as the advantages of theft over honest toil.

I conclude that, while it is true that science cannot decide questions of value, that is because they cannot be intellectually decided at all, and lie outside the realm of truth and falsehood. Whatever knowledge is attainable, must be attained by scientific methods; and what science cannot discover, mankind cannot know.