Both [Quine and Feyerabend] want to revise a version of positivism. Quine started with the Vienna Circle, and Feyerabend with the Copenhagen school of quantum mechanics. Both the Circle and the school have been called children of Ernst Mach; if so, the philosophies of Feyerabend and Quine must be his grandchildren.
philosophy physics positivism
The best reaction to a paradox is to invent a genuinely new and deep idea.
philosophy
If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
people
I have this extraordinary curiosity about all subjects of the natural and human world and the interaction between the physical sciences and the social sciences.
science
Every once in a while, something happens to you that makes you realise that the human race is not quite as bad as it so often seems to be.
race