The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. – In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
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.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.