Until politics are a branch of science we shall do well to regard political and social reforms as experiments rather than short-cuts to the millennium.

Science is vastly more stimulating to the imagination than are the classics.

Politics are the divine science, after all

I suppose the process of acceptance will pass through the usual four stages: i) this is worthless nonsense; ii) this is an interesting, but perverse, point of view; iii) this is true, but quite unimportant; iv) I always said so.

You can't get rich in politics unless you're a crook.

I am quite sure that our views on evolution would be very different had biologists studied genetics and natural selection before and not after most of them were convinced that evolution had occurred.