Orts #777
Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking.
— John Maynard Keynes
What basic science gives us is a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary that can be used only to say nice things.
-- John Polanyi
Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
-- Carl Jung, in Modern Man in Search of a Soul
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.
-- Hannah Arendt, in The Life of the Mind