Weekly Quotes

13th May

Enriching and changing knowledge, emotions, attitudes through the arts now seems to me a much more fruitful enterprise and also much more humane than the attempt to influence minds (and nothing else) by words (and nothing else).

Science in a Free Society. London: New Left Books, 1978. p.114. 

I realised that my efforts had not been in vain and that it needed only a slight change in attitude to make them effective, both in my own eyes, and the eyes of others. You can help people by writing books.

Farewell to Reason. London – New York: Verso, 1987. p.318.