A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life.
Science cannot solve the ultimate mystery of nature. And that is because, in the last analysis, we ourselves are a part of the mystery we are trying to solve.
If you find yourself in a fair fight, you should reexamine your tactics.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
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.
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.
It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.