Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
If people are not laughing at you’re goal, then you’re goals are too small.
The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.