Space is big. You just won’t believe how vastly, hugely, mind-bogglingly big it is. I mean, you may think it’s a long way down the road to the chemist’s, but that’s just peanuts to space.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
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 first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.