For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.
Logic is like the sword–those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.
Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.
Worse than any severe mental illness, is the illness of bigotry.
Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
Ignorance more frequently begets confidence than does knowledge: it is those who know little, and not those who know much, who so positively assert that this or that problem will never be solved by science.
An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.