jz's Quotes

Learning never exhausts the mind.

They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and this is a good argument against atheism. I think it's a better argument against foxholes.

[The Scientific] method is very effective for gathering facts that match its underlying assumptions, it is worthless for gathering those that do not. 

The skeptic does not mean "him who doubts", but "him who investigates or researches", as opposed to "he who asserts and thinks that he has found".

We now have the resources, technology and know-how, to make the world 100% physically a success for everyone without taking it away, or destroying our environment.  (1969)

We are not going to be able to operate our Spaceship Earth successfully nor for much longer unless we see it as a whole spaceship and our fate as common. It has to be everybody or nobody.

It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.

Disobedience was man's Original Virtue.

They spend billions of dollars every year lobbying to get what they want … Well, we know what they want. They want more for themselves and less for everybody else... Good honest hard-working people continue to elect these rich cocksuckers who don't give a fuck about you.

Reality is what you can get away with.