All Professionals, Whether Physicists, Economists Or Musicians,

The Most Lasting And Universal Consequence Of The French Revolution Is The Metric System

Historians Are To Nationalism What Poppy-growers In Pakistan Are To Heroin-addicts: We Supply The Essential Raw Material For The Market.

No Serious Historian Of Nations And Nationalism Can Be A Committed Political Nationalist... Nationalism Requires Too Much Belief In What Is Patently Not So.

The Greatest Cruelties Of Our Century Have Been The Impersonal Cruelties Of Remote Decision, Of System And Routine, Especially When They Could Be Justified As Regrettable Operational Necessity.

All Professionals, Whether Physicists, Economists Or Musicians, Live By And For Peer Judgment, Even When They Are Being Paid By People Who Cannot Tell The Difference.