Logical positivism was progressive compared with the classical positiv — Mario Bunge

"When in the sciences or techniques one states that a certain problem is unsolvable, a rigorous demonstration of such unsolvability is required. And when a scientist submits an article to publication, the least that its referees demand is that it be intelligible. Why? Because rational beings long for understanding and because only clear statements are susceptible to be put to examination to verify whether they are true or false. In the Humanities it is the same, or it should be, but it is not always so. Nietzsche reproached John Stuart Mills clarity. Henri Bergson, although an intuitionist himself, wrote clearly and declared that "clarity is the philosophers courtesy". Obscurity is rude, because it assumes the interlocutor is incapable of understanding and dialoguing."

"A definitely undesirable rationale sustaining the cult of simplicity is of a metaphysical nature: namely, the wish to attain the ultimate atoms of experience and/or reality ... this drive, which feeds metaphysical fundamentalism, is dangerous because it leads to postulating the final simplicity of some form of experience or some kind of substance thereby barring any inquiry into their structure."

"The motto of science is not just Pauca but rather Plurima ex paucissimis — the most out of the least."

"If one aims to judge political movements, their deeds are far more important than their speeches, which are often masking rather than revealing."

"We all would to know more and, at the same time, to receive less information. In fact, the problem of a worker in todays knowledge industry is not the scarcity of information but its excess. The same holds for professionals: just think of a physician or an executive, constantly bombarded by information that is at best irrelevant. In order to learn anything we need time. And to make time we must use information filters allowing us to ignore most of the information aimed at us. We must ignore much to learn a little."

"Bunge: In September I will be 90 years old. Reporter: You look very youthful. Bunge: Thats because I avoid alcohol, tobacco, and postmodernism."