If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.
I think it is a mistake to judge science by Nobel Prizes.
Natural science does not simply describe and explain nature: it is part of the interplay between us and nature.
Education consists mainly of what we have unlearned.
I would rather have questions that can’t be answered than answers which can’t be questioned.
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of Giants.
You can never be overdressed or overeducated.
Never memorize something that you can look up.
You can buy my time and effort, but you have to earn my dedication.
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.