Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

Others think it the responsibility of scientists to coerce the rest of society because they have the power that derives from special knowledge.

No power in society no hardship in your condition can depress you keep you down in knowledge power virtue influence but by your own consent.

To act on the belief that we possess the knowledge and the power which enable us to shape the processes of society entirely to our liking knowledge which in fact we do not possess is likely to make us do much harm.

Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.

The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.

In our society those who are in reality superior in intelligence can be accepted by their fellows only if they pretend they are not.

Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence with only two social aims in mind: prepare to take on one's share in the world's work and perhaps in addition lend a hand in improving society after schooling is done.

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions instincts and passions intelligence and reason.

But our society does not grant nontraditional forms of intelligence equal recognition no matter how much it would help us get along or truly enrich our lives.