The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Writing my own novels in the ’90s…I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.
Man once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without rudder, is the sport of every wind.
Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.”