Anyone who still needs to think about techniques on the battlefield will die.
At its birth, science was synonymous with open-mindedness…. As it evolved, however, it also turned itself into ideology, belief, and prejudice.
By attempting to measure the unmeasurable, measurement becomes a form of pseudo-objectivity. Instead of bringing the researcher closer to his research object, [it] leads him further away.
Everything stands or falls with the act of speaking out.
If the opposition is silent, the totalitarian system becomes a monster that devours its own children.
Mass formation blinds both intelligent and less intelligent people to the same extent. People really don’t have to be part of a conspiracy to systematically make the most foolish mistakes.
Science adapts its theory to reality, whereas ideology adapts reality to theory.
The first thing totalitarian leaders do is make sure their voices are the only ones left.
The scientific discourse, like any dominant discourse, has become the privileged instrument of opportunism, lies, deception, manipulation, and power.
The totalitarian system doesn’t have to be overcome so much as one must somehow survive until it destroys itself.
We tend to think that humans distinguish themselves from animals by greater knowledge and awareness, but the most typical difference is that…we are almost constantly tormented by a lack of knowledge.
