Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Ask the right questions, and nature will open the doors to her secrets.
Science and religion are not at odds. Science is simply too young to understand.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
Keep in mind my friend, if an answer is not rational, then it is not an answer, but a delusion.”
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!
I strongly believe that fundamental science cannot be driven by instructional, industrial and government or military pressures.
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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.