Show me a cultural relativist at 30,000 feet and I'll show you a hypocrite... If you are flying to an international congress of anthropologists or literary critics, the reason you will probably get there - the reason you don't plummet into a ploughed field - is that a lot of Western scientifically trained engineers have got their sum right.

A Devil's Chaplain: Selected Writings (ed. Hachette UK, 2010) - ISBN: 9780297865421