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.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
I am the master of my failure… If I never fail how will I ever learn.
I don’t believe in taking right decisions. Take decisions and make them right.
I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you’d give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason, not passion only.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
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.
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.