Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
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.
No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
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.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
I mean, you could claim that anything’s real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody’s proved it doesn’t exist!
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.