Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Give me 6 hours to chop a tree, I will spend the first 4 sharpening my axe.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
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.
Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.