“People who believe that they are strong-willed and the masters of their destiny can only continue to believe this by becoming specialists in self-deception.”
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Essay on Atomism: From Democritus to 1960 (1961)
Context: It is widely believed that only those who can master the latest quantum mathematics can understand anything of what is happening. That is not so, provided one takes the long view, for no one can see far ahead. Against a historical background, the layman can understand what is involved, for example, in the fascinating challenge of continuity and discontinuity expressed in the antithesis of field and particle.<!--p.4

2015, Remarks at Panama Civil Society Forum (April 2015)

“Strong blasphemers thrive only when strong believers thrive.”
Grandpa Winnegan
Riders of the Purple Wage (1967)

Joseph Wu (2018) cited in " Allies remain a priority: minister http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2018/05/26/2003693748" on Taipei Times, 26 May 2018.

Quoted in The International Herald Tribune (19 September 2005).