The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
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.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
You can buy my time and effort, but you have to earn my dedication.
Maybe true travel is not the transportation of the body, but a change of perception, renewing the mind.
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.