“Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.”

“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn't lead anywhere.”

“The voice of the intellect is a soft one, but it does not rest until it has gained a hearing.”

“It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.”

“The truth of things is the chief nutriment of superior intellects.”

“Information is the oxygen of the modern age. It seeps through the walls topped by barbed wire, it wafts across the electrified borders.”