The best brains of the Nation may be found on the last benches of the Classroom
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.
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.
What counts now are the value-less facts, the material and the rational. All else is regarded with condescension as being of only sentimental value.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
You can buy my time and effort, but you have to earn my dedication.
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!
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.