Einstein’s relativity work is a magnificent mathematical garb which fascinates, dazzles and makes people blind to the underlying errors. The theory is like a beggar clothed in purple whom ignorant people take for a king... its exponents are brilliant men but they are metaphysicists rather than scientists.
Majorities are generally wrong, if only in their reasons for being right.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
Maybe I'm misjudging people, but I feel like a lot of people still have an image of me in a bonnet at nine years old.
Every generation lives with illusions.
For months, Obama administration officials attacked Snowden's motives and said the work of the NSA was distorted by selective leaks and misinterpretations.
Man is too quick at forming conclusions.
Belief in the absence of illusions is itself an illusion.
I've spent my life making blunders.
I think I'm pretty misunderstoood.
A black man singing about a blond girl was potential trouble.
History seems to be so clumsy.
Once you get into something so big, people think of you in one way.
I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
I already know what things look like - I don't want description. People believe in appearances, and I don't believe in appearances at all.
Most of my presumptions about a production are usually wrong.
Truth is always a delusion.
Everything isn't exactly what it seems from the outside.
How many stories have you read that aren't true, stories about me and Angie being married or fighting or splitting up? And when we don't split up, there's a whole new round that we've made up and we're back together again!
If you're deluded, you live in a place where there isn't everyone else's reality.
We suffer primarily not from our vices or our weaknesses, but from our illusions. We are haunted, not by reality, but by those images we have put in their place.
About 90 percent of what's out there in cyberspace is hearsay - or lies - and opinion, often misinformed opinion, and it's all repeated over and over again.
I guess people expect or figure me to be a lot of different things.
