The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
What could an entirely rational being speak of with another entirely rational being?
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
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.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
What, therefore, is a government at its best? It is a government that “governs” least and instead finds ways to mobilise the energies of our people.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.