It is time to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be logically respectable until philosophers solve the problem of induction.

"Memory is a strange thing, it doesn't work like I thought it did. We are so used to thinking of it as a camera or a tape recorder, but it's not like that at all. It's more like a painter, who adds and subtracts elements according to his own rules."

The spread of liberal democracy around the world is not inevitable, but it is the most likely outcome of the process of modernization.