The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
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!
Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
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.
Prayers without accordant action are silent lies told to oneself, heard by no God, amounting to nothing. Action is the language of truth, the prayers of the Saints.