The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
You can buy my time and effort, but you have to earn my dedication.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.