Science is what we have learned about how to keep from fooling ourselves.
The solutions all are simple…after you have arrived at them. But they’re simple only when you know already what they are.
The first rule is not to lose. The second rule is not to forget the first rule.
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.
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.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.
Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
Go to Heaven for the climate. Hell for the company.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.