The whole of science is nothing more than a refinement of everyday thinking.
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd.
The cooperative structure never encourages huge bureaucratic systems, for it knows that mammoth bureaucracies cannot be sensitive to the needs of people.
To such a world of conflict, a world of victims, and executions, it is the job of thinking people not to be on the side of the executioners.
The test of a first rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.
I haven’t failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work.
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim to be defenders of minorities.
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.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood. Now is the time to understand more, so that we may fear less.