He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
That rifle on the wall of the labourer’s cottage or working class flat is the symbol of democracy. It is our job to see that it stays there.
Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
If you are going through hell, keep going.
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.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.