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.
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.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
All real philosophers have been artists in the realm of concepts.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
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.