If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
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.
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.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.