I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
I am the master of my failure… If I never fail how will I ever learn.
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.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
You can buy my time and effort, but you have to earn my dedication.
That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.