It is no small art to sleep: for that purpose you must keep awake all day.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
It is the mark of an educated mind, to entertain a thought without accepting it.
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.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.
If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.