I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
An optimist believes we live in the best possible of worlds.- A pessimist fears that this is true.
You don’t play for revenge, you play for respect and pride.
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.
Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
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.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our ways. I to die, and you to live. Which is better God only knows.