I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival. 27 December 1987

Human beings will be happier — not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie — but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That’s my utopia. Interview 1973

As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.

The open society, the unrestricted access to knowledge, the unplanned and uninhibited association of men for its furtherance - these are what may make a vast, complex, ever growing, ever changing, ever more specialized and expert technological world, nevertheless a world of human community.