There is no pre-established harmony between the furtherance of truth and the well-being of mankind.

Economics hasn't had an Einstein because it hasn't had a Galileo yet.

The methodological conflicts between science and religion cannot be brokered, for faith has no reliable way to find truth.

Faith does not offer a strong link between our beliefs and actual states of the world.

In fact, it's basically impossible to combine a system in which agreements stay agreed with one in which equality stays equal.

Reason and faith, the Archbishop said, do not of necessity cohere. Reason saith that water will not be transformed to wine. Faith has a contrary answer.

Individual freedom and individual equality cannot co-exist. I dare say no one since Thomas Jefferson has really believed it.

It is not pretended that, at the present stage of its development, economic science is able to provide an organon even remotely approaching to what it imagines for itself as its ideal.

Almost none of the students in any major showed a consistent understanding of how to apply methods of evaluating truth they had learned in their own discipline to other areas.

When will the interests of governments be amalgamated with those of the people? Never!

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Feeling does not succeed in converting consolation into truth, nor does reason succeed in converting truth into consolation.

It’s become somewhat fashionable to say that religion and science are growing together and are no longer incompatible. This convergence is, in my opinion, illusory. In fact, I don’t believe that any attempt to combine these very disparate bodies of ideas can succeed intellectually.

As far as I'm concerned, humans have not yet come up with a belief that's worth believing.