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.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
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.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.
You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.
You cannot conquer a free man. The most you can do is kill him.